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☆ ‘Agreeing to Disagree’ Review: Congress Shall Erect No Wall
  + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Adam J. White | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Photo: Getty ImagesFor all that divided the North and South in 1865, there remained a common bond to which President Lincoln could appeal in his second inaugural address. Both sides “pray to the same God,” but “the prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.” From this shared faith—and a shared acceptance of the gulf between God’s power and man’s designs—Lincoln could call on all Americans to proceed “with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right,” to “finish the work we are in.”
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☆ ‘FDR’s Gambit’ Review: Playing the Numbers
  + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Adam J. White | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The judiciary, Alexander Hamilton warned, “is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by” the political branches of government. That year, President Franklin Roosevelt waged political war against a Supreme Court that had stifled his ambitious New Deal policies. FDR was at the height of his prewar authority, and the court’s counter-majoritarian decisions had put the institution in genuine peril. In “FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism,” she seeks to “challenge the conventional wisdom” about FDR’s attacks. She sees not presidential overreach but “shrewdness.” And Ms. Kalman’s account is thorough: From congressmen to administration officials to judges to columnists to pollsters to interest groups, “FDR’s Gambit” recounts seemingly everyone who supported, opposed or analyzed Roosevelt’s war on the court.
☆ The CFPB Engages in Legal Deception
  + stars: | 2022-12-05 | by ( Adam J. White | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
But the CFPB, which Congress established in the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, is engaging in some false advertising of its own. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in October that the bureau’s unprecedented power to fund itself is unconstitutional. The Constitution prohibits agencies from spending from the federal Treasury without “appropriations made by law.” The CFPB does exactly that. The Dodd-Frank Act authorizes its director to decide unilaterally how much the agency needs to spend and to demand that the Federal Reserve transfer the funds to the agency. The Fifth Circuit recognized that this self-funding power violates the Constitution and undermines one of the basic pillars of republican self-government.
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