“What can and can't the president do, and how do we know?” is the issue addressed in a recent episode of NPR’s Throughline podcast, featuring special guest Bowdoin professor Andrew Rudalevige.
The Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government explains how the original framers of the Constitution were vague when it came to defining the powers of the executive—something that enabled the office of the presidency to become, over the years, more powerful than anything the Founding Fathers had imagined.
