Derek Black

When Congress is willing to hand the keys over to the president, then we no longer really have a democracy, or at least the constitutional democracy that was created a couple centuries ago. So the bigger danger, I think, is that through law itself, Congress cedes more and more power to the president with a new legislation.

When Congress is willing to hand the keys over to the president, then we no longer really have a democracy, or at least the constitutional democracy that was created a couple centuries ago. So the bigger danger, I think, is that through law itself, Congress cedes more and more power to the president with a new legislation.

When Congress is willing to hand the keys over to the president, then we no longer really have a democracy, or at least the constitutional democracy that was created a couple centuries ago. So the bigger danger, I think, is that through law itself, Congress cedes more and more power to the president with a new legislation.

So if Congress were to pass new legislation giving the president more centralized power, well, that would be a concerning thing to me.

So if Congress were to pass new legislation giving the president more centralized power, well, that would be a concerning thing to me.

So if Congress were to pass new legislation giving the president more centralized power, well, that would be a concerning thing to me.

I'm Derek Black. I'm a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. My area focuses on education, law, and policy, and really sort of how that relates to democracy. But I teach constitutional law and courses like that.

I'm Derek Black. I'm a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. My area focuses on education, law, and policy, and really sort of how that relates to democracy. But I teach constitutional law and courses like that.

I'm Derek Black. I'm a professor of law at the University of South Carolina. My area focuses on education, law, and policy, and really sort of how that relates to democracy. But I teach constitutional law and courses like that.

I'm author of a couple books, Schoolhouse Burning, Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy, and then more recently, Dangerous Learning, The South's Long War on Black Literacy.

I'm author of a couple books, Schoolhouse Burning, Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy, and then more recently, Dangerous Learning, The South's Long War on Black Literacy.

I'm author of a couple books, Schoolhouse Burning, Public Education and the Assault on American Democracy, and then more recently, Dangerous Learning, The South's Long War on Black Literacy.

Yeah, I mean, there's always been this states' rights issue that's been with America since its founding. It obviously was a big part of the Civil War. Big part of the civil rights movement, big part of the Affordable Health Care Act debate.

Yeah, I mean, there's always been this states' rights issue that's been with America since its founding. It obviously was a big part of the Civil War. Big part of the civil rights movement, big part of the Affordable Health Care Act debate.

Yeah, I mean, there's always been this states' rights issue that's been with America since its founding. It obviously was a big part of the Civil War. Big part of the civil rights movement, big part of the Affordable Health Care Act debate.

So you always have this states' rights argument going on, and at least amongst the folks that are worried about that, public education comes up as being a target because there's this argument always that, well, education is not in the federal constitution, so what business does the federal government have to be involved in?

So you always have this states' rights argument going on, and at least amongst the folks that are worried about that, public education comes up as being a target because there's this argument always that, well, education is not in the federal constitution, so what business does the federal government have to be involved in?

So you always have this states' rights argument going on, and at least amongst the folks that are worried about that, public education comes up as being a target because there's this argument always that, well, education is not in the federal constitution, so what business does the federal government have to be involved in?

It's really more of a talking point as opposed to any particular substantive reason why they want to get rid of it. But that's really where it's come from. But it's often been not that serious of a critique, but obviously it's gotten very serious here in the last couple of weeks.

It's really more of a talking point as opposed to any particular substantive reason why they want to get rid of it. But that's really where it's come from. But it's often been not that serious of a critique, but obviously it's gotten very serious here in the last couple of weeks.