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In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.

When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.