Gene Healy is a vice president at the Cato Institute. His research interests include executive power and the role of the presidency, as well as federalism and overcriminalization. He is the author of 2008's The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, and the editor of the 2004 collection Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything. Healy has appeared on PBS's Newshour with Jim Lehrer and NPR's Talk of the Nation, and his writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Legal Times, and elsewhere. He is also a weekly columnist for the Washington Examiner. Healy holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
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"Reclaiming the War Power," Chapter 10 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.
The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power, author (2008)
Go Directly To Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything, editor (2004)
"Reclaiming the War Power," Chapter 11, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 108th Congress, (2003).
"Reclaiming the War Power," Chapter 7, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 107th Congress, (2001).
"Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush," by Gene Healy and Tim Lynch, White Paper, May 1, 2006.
"Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front," Policy Analysis no. 503, December 17, 2003.
"There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to "Help" Localities Fight Gun Crime," Policy Analysis no. 440, May 28, 2002.
"Arrogance of Power Reborn: The Imperial Presidency and Foreign Policy in the Clinton Years," Policy Analysis no. 389, December 13, 2000.
"Congressional Abdication and the Cult of the Presidency," White House Studies, Volume 10, Number 2 (2010).
"The Imperial Presidency and the War on Terror," Cato Policy Report, March/April 2006.
"Beware the Depends Bomber?," DC Examiner, June 28, 2011
"Harold Koh Is the Gollum of Foggy Bottom," DC Examiner, June 21, 2011
"Weinergate Reminds Us Not to Give These Clowns More Power," DC Examiner, June 7, 2011
"But He's Our Imperial President!," DC Examiner, June 2, 2011
"Commander in Chief of the U.S. Economy," DC Examiner, June 1, 2011
"Beware the Depends Bomber?," June 28, 2011
"Harold Koh and the Temptations of Power," June 21, 2011
"AEI on the Spectre of 'Isolationism'," June 20, 2011
"White House: 'We Have Never Been at War in Northafrica!'," June 16, 2011
""Weinergate": It's Entertaining--and Edifying!," June 8, 2011
"The War in Libya: What Is the Role of Congress?," April 5, 2011 [Capitol Hill Briefing]
"The Politics and Law of Immigration," July 21, 2010 [Policy Forum]
"Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression," June 1, 2009 [Conference]
"Obama and Presidential Power: Change or Continuity?," February 25, 2009 [Policy Forum]
"The Cult of the Presidency," November 4, 2008 [Book Forum]
Obama's Unprecedented War Powers Claims (June 24, 2011) [Cato Video, 04:50]
Gene Healy on his "Imperial Presidency" columns on The G. Gordon Liddy Show (June 1, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 19:14]
Gene Healy discusses Obama's Middle East speech on WBAL's The C4 Show (May 19, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 37:31]
Gene Healy discusses his Examiner column on the TSA on WBAL's The Ron Smith Show (April 20, 2011) [Media Highlights - Radio, 14:32]
The War in Libya: What Is the Role of Congress? with Brandon Arnold, John Samples and Rep. Tom McClintock (April 5, 2011) [Events, 51:54]