I stop what I’m doing whenever I see him about to ask questions of a witness in a Senate hearing, for the pure pleasure of knowing there is still intelligence and focus in our politics.

The Fifth Circuit’s bizarre ruling threatens every government agency and program funded outside the annual appropriations process, including Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Federal Reserve, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to name a few.  The case is a threat to the strength of our financial system and other programs that seniors and families rely on, which is why I’ve joined Senator Warren to make the stakes of this case clear.

Groups like the Federalist Society have been cooking up fringe legal theories to inject into mainstream legal thought for years.