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# Gene Healy 

Former Senior Vice President for Policy

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Gene Healy was senior vice president for policy at the Cato Institute. His research interests included executive power and the role of the presidency as well as federalism and overcriminalization.

He is the author of *Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution’s Impeachment Power* and *The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power* and is editor of *Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything*. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s [*Visions of Liberty*](https://www.libertarianism.org/books/visions-liberty).

Healy has appeared on *PBS NewsHour* and NPR’s *Talk of the Nation*, and his work has been published in the *Los Angeles Times*, the *New York Times*, the *Chicago Tribune*, the *Legal Times*, and elsewhere.

Healy holds a BA from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School.

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##### Featured Book 

### *[The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power](https://www.cato.org/books/the-cult-of-the-presidency)*

The modern presidency has become the central fault line of polarization in America because the president, increasingly, has the power to reshape vast swaths of American life, and “We, the People” are to blame.

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