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“The lawsuit was a long shot,” says Harold Krent, professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “It had very little to go on because the mistake was not made by the IRS, it was made by this independent contractor, and he waited too long to sue. ... The statute of limitations had run. So the question is, is this settlement bogus?”

Current political circumstances are a modern-day analogue to the Framers’ concerns about tyranny. ... New gerrymanders could easily give control of the House of Representatives to Republicans despite a majority of voters preferring Democrats. But there are plenty of other ways that anti-democratic practices in one state can have spillover effects in others and, as we are increasingly seeing, can help erode our national cohesion.

“Most presidents have not conceded that it’s constitutional, and there are a number of scholars, including myself, who think that there are some constitutional problems with the War Powers Resolution,” says Raff Donelson, professor of law and philosophy at Chicago-Kent College of Law. "Most presidents, despite those qualms, have attempted to follow the framework that it sets up.”