To what extent could the USA still be described as having an "imperial Presidency"?

        When you look at the domestic powers of the president, they appeared to have largely escaped the constrains imposed by a system of constitutional checks and balances. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr made six principal charges against the Nixon administration, like that he pursed a policy of impoundment, by which funded allocated by Congress for a particular purpose were not spent, it enforced the law selectively choosing for example not to enforce parts of the Civil Rights Act that would cut off federal funding to school districts discriminating against minority students. It is said that present’s aides in the Executive Office of the President, people like John Ehrlichman and H.R.Haldeman, wielded much more power than cabinet officials who headed federal departments such as Defence and the Treasury, Haldeman is said to have used his position as White House chief-of-staff to ensure that very few individuals had access to the president, so in fact that he could end up controlling policy and the presidency as only people who could have made huge money donation to the party and president, also the administration had used government agencies to pursue personal vendettas and silence critics. Executive privilege was being invoked to prevent congressional scrutiny of executive actions. Presidential press conferences allowing reporters to ask critical question were being displaced by television addresses to the nation. So the president no longer has to answer question that could damage his popularity, so is not longer has to be held accountable to the press as not one can ask question about polices.

        The 1972 Case act, requiring that the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committees be notified of all executive agreements, this did little to stem the flow, as even reporting provisions of the Case Act have been evaded and undermined by president executive delay. The president have continued to be nation’s Chief Legislation, like Bill Clinton and his reforms, on health care and tax cuts for the middle class. The president also has the ability to issue and withdraw executive orders. The president with the help of the Office of Management and Budget can shape the federal government annual budget. The president also has the power of veto which even the threat of the use of it may cause a change in the bill trying to be passed. He also can use a pocket veto, but only at the end off a congressional session.  The president also has the power under the 1976 National Emergency, which in these times people will rally around the president, and he can gain a lot of support from this, like after the 11/9 attacks, the president gain a lot of support in the after the attacks.

        So the president has had more power, with making changes in laws, but how the president are now using the powers that they have, like the fact they have found ways around not getting to agreement by congress that is often needed. This is allowed the president to get polices that he wants through, get changes to bill he wants, and even use troops with out congress declaring war, so the presidency has become more powerful in that way, as now he getting away with things and doing what he wants, but not yet upsetting the country over it nor losing popularity over it, and maybe running there re-election campaign in it.