Please take immediate action and use the power of Congress to deal with these matters.

We have the power to win back Congress. Yesterday proved it.

When Congress has not taken action on a pressing environmental issue, states have the right to take legal action to protect themselves, ... We filed this lawsuit because global warming poses a serious threat to our environment, our public health, and our economy.

The Supreme Court's basic take is that when Congress has said something specific, the president's authority to take action beyond that is at its lowest ebb. This would seem to be right up against that wall. Congress has acted. The president seems to be circumventing it. And that raises an enormous constitutional question.

The enforcement arms of Congress have been missing in action for quite some time and it's unclear whether adding more rules for them not to enforce would do any good.

When the ADA was enacted in 1990, Congress identified the segregation of people with disabilities as a severe form of discrimination. Yet 16 years later, Illinois continues to channel thousands of people with mental illnesses into large institutions while other states offer them the choice to live in the community.