Last week at NYU’s Democracy Project ‘s series of 100 essays in 100 days, we featured two essays, among others, on the role of Congress in this moment.

One, from congressional expert Molly Reynolds, is titled When It Comes to its Spending Power, Congress Must Save Itself . The second, from Andy McCarthy, who is former federal prosecutor, bestselling author, and National Review contributing editor, is titled Bring Back Congress.

Here’s an excerpt first from Molly’s piece:

The threat to Congress comes not only from the executive branch directly. While, for a range of historical and institutional reasons , adjudicating spending questions is not entirely comfortable terrain for judges, the federal courts have become the primary venue in which the battle over the executive’s conduc

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