What Presidents Can Do: The Supreme Court

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Sun, 03/29/2015 - 7:45am

A President Warren or a President Clinton would have power, but not as much as you think. In his piece You Can't Make The Congress Do Anything, which reviewed the book "The Fierce Urgency of Now", Scott Lemieux writes: We don’t have to speculate how effective LBJ’s leadership would be without a rare functioning liberal majority in Congress.

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