Andrew Rudalevige
@rudalev.bsky.social
Bowdoin College professor of political science; affiliated with UCL's Centre on US Politics and UVa's Miller Center. Feed includes posts on presidential power, bureaucratic politics, and carping about Boston sports and European football
Small suggestion - not co-equal, but superior. Article I for a reason! Congress can fire the president - the president can't fire Congress. (Only Congress can do that to itself - sadly, it has.)
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Small suggestion - not co-equal, but superior. Article I for a reason! Congress can fire the president - the president can't fire Congress. (Only Congress can do that to itself - sadly, it has.)
The administration's new (though not surprising) invention of a newly extended "unitary executive" logic to wipe out most civil service protections.
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Final Schedule F regulations to describe civil service protections as ‘unconstitutional overcorrections’
OPM officials told agency HR leaders Tuesday that President Trump has Article II constitutional authority to remove tens of thousands of career federal workers in jobs over potential “resistance to po...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The administration's new (though not surprising) invention of a newly extended "unitary executive" logic to wipe out most civil service protections.
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
The claim that UET is somehow textual is truly bizarre, given a text without popular election of the president.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The claim that UET is somehow textual is truly bizarre, given a text without popular election of the president.
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"highly trained specialists have been pulled into immigration work, such as analysts who assist in money laundering and counterterrorism"
"new duties have included compiling addresses of undocumented immigrants...and making arrests at traffic stops [and] big-box store parking lots"
"new duties have included compiling addresses of undocumented immigrants...and making arrests at traffic stops [and] big-box store parking lots"
Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations
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November 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"highly trained specialists have been pulled into immigration work, such as analysts who assist in money laundering and counterterrorism"
"new duties have included compiling addresses of undocumented immigrants...and making arrests at traffic stops [and] big-box store parking lots"
"new duties have included compiling addresses of undocumented immigrants...and making arrests at traffic stops [and] big-box store parking lots"