# Gene Healy **URL:** --- Gene Healy was senior vice president for policy at the Cato Institute. His research interests include 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).