Summary: This panel will address the role of Executive branch officials in making high-level policy decisions, and their relationship to Congress. This is particularly relevant in the context of two recent debates: can the President ignore congressional attempts to strip funding from high-level officials who are not confirmed by the Senate? Is the Obama administration’s use of "czars" constitutional? Moreover, what is the power of the Executive branch to start a war without any authorization from Congress? The Federalist Society's Student Division presented this panel at the 2012 Annual Student Symposium on March 3, 2012. Featuring Prof. Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of Stanford Law School; Prof. John Harrison of the University of Virginia Law School; Prof. Sandy Levinson of the University of Texas Law School; Prof. John Yoo of Berkeley Law School; and Judge Thomas Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as the moderator. Introduction by Mr. Ilan Wurman, Co-Chair of the 2012 Annual Student Symposium.
