At the NYU Democracy Project, William Galston publishes an essay today on reining in presidential emergency powers. Here’s an excerpt:

The most important and urgent constitutional issue of our era is the relentless growth of executive power under presidents of both parties, a process that has moved into overdrive since the beginning of President Trump’s second term. Some of this reflects the near collapse of Congress as a functioning branch of government, preventing progress on key issues such as immigration and tempting presidents to achieve by fiat what they cannot attain through legislation. The Supreme Court’s embrace of theories such as the “unitary executive” has accelerated the expansion of presidential power. But there is another dimension of this development that deserves m

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