your question for jeffrey rosen? caller: yes, the supreme georges our government officials, the president is a government official, the senators are government officials. what stops the president from taking over their responsibilities and duties? guest: great question. the constitution would stop him. article three of the constitution appoints judges of the supreme court for life, for good behavior, along with the judges on such inferior courts, as congress may choose to establish. so that tenure from judges come from the constitution. congressional terms comes from the constitution as well. the constitution specifies how long house members and senators are appointed, and therefore it is really clear from the constitution that although the president may have a lot of control, complete control to hire and fire executive branch decision, he has no power, zero control, over the other branches. host: robert in ohio, republican, you are on with jeffrey rosen. caller: how are you doing? host: what is your question, robert

your question for jeffrey rosen?aller: yes, the supreme georges our government officials, the president is a government official, the senators are government officials. what stops the president from taking over their responsibilities and duties? guest: great question. the constitution would stop him. article three of the constitution appoints judges of the supreme court for life, for good behavior, along with the judges on such inferior courts, as congress may choose to establish. so that tenure from judges come from the constitution. congressional terms comes from the constitution as well. the constitution specifies how long house members and senators are appointed, and therefore it is really clear from the constitution that although the president may have a lot of control, complete control to hire and fire executive branch decision, he has no power, zero control, over the other branches. host: robert in ohio, republican, you are on with jeffrey rosen. caller: how are you doing? host: what is your question, robert?

your question for jeffrey rosen? yes, the supreme georges our government officials, the president is a government official, the senators are government officials. what stops the president from taking over their responsibilities and duties? guest: great question. the constitution would stop him. article three of the constitution appoints judges of the supreme court for life, for good behavior, along with the judges on such inferior courts, as congress may choose to establish. so that tenure from judges come from the constitution. congressional terms comes from the constitution as well. the constitution specifies how long house members and senators are appointed, and therefore it is really clear from the constitution that although the president may have a lot of control, complete control to hire and fire executive branch decision, he has no power, zero control, over the other branches. host: robert in ohio, republican, you are on with jeffrey rosen. caller: how are you doing? host: what is your question, robert? caller

host: robert in ohio, republican, you are on with jeffrey rosen. caller: how are you doing? host: what is your question, robert? caller: my question is, you know, you said we've never been in a constitutional crisis, but just when biden was president, he refused to accept the supreme court's ruling over us not paying for everybody else's college. i did not get to go to college. i could not go to college. the reason was i could not pay for it. i cannot afford it. but now i'm paying for everybody else's college. if we ain't never been in a constitutional crisis, what was that? guest: great question, and as i suggested a moment ago, president biden was not defying an explicit order of the supreme court. remember, the supreme court said he could not cancel the debt under one provision of federal law, and in fact, chief justice roberts in his the supreme court opinion made exactly the point you did, that some people safe, so they could try to go to [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.o

also a great day to have jeffrey rosen, president and c.e.o.f national constitution center in philadelphia. and what a start with you taking the lead. what do you think has been the most interesting constitutional question that has come up in these first 50 days of the second trump administration? guest: the most interesting question is the