Category: Constitutional Order
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Understanding Responsibility in the 2025 Government Shutdown
A Non-Partisan Look at Power, Process, and Shared Accountability On October 1, 2025, the United States federal government entered a partial shutdown—its first since 2018—after Congress and the President failed to reach agreement on either short-term or long-term funding measures. This latest impasse did not arise in isolation; rather, it emerged from years of deepening…
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“We Have an Insurrection Act for a Reason”: What Invoking It Would Really Mean
A nonpartisan public-policy analysis of powers, guardrails, risks, and likely outcomes In a recent statement, President Donald Trump declared that he would consider invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 “if necessary,” a pronouncement that immediately reignited debate over one of the most controversial instruments of executive power in American law. The Insurrection Act serves as…