Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin’s Thomas Bracket Reed Professor of Government, sheds some light on the matter of the U.S. House of Representative suing President Barack Obama over the alleged abuse of executive powers.

In the Washington Post political blog, Monkey Cage, Rudalevige examines some of the claims, and points to a difference between executive orders and executive powers.

Read “Executive Directives — And Misdirection.”