{"id":306779,"date":"2021-09-10T21:42:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nader.org\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2021-09-10T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:42:51","slug":"congress-collectively-less-than-an-inkblot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/10\/congress-collectively-less-than-an-inkblot\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress \u2013 Collectively Less Than An Inkblot"},"content":{"rendered":"By Ralph Nader September 10, 2021 Bruce Fein, constitutional law specialist who has testified before Congress approximately 200 times, calls Congress \u201can inkblot.\u201d Let&#8217;s see if he is exaggerating. Congress has abdicated its duties and constitutional authorities to the president regardless of party affiliation. Presidents start wars, spend unauthorized money recklessly, defy congressional subpoenas, snoop&#8230;\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/nader.org\/2021\/09\/10\/congress-collectively-less-than-an-inkblot\/\">Ralph Nader<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ralph Nader September 10, 2021 Bruce Fein, constitutional law specialist who has testified before Congress approximately 200 times, calls Congress \u201can inkblot.\u201d Let&#8217;s see if he is exaggerating. Congress has abdicated its duties and constitutio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306780,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306779\/revisions\/306780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}