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Feingold Slams Fellow Democrats For Failure to Rein In Patriot Act AbusesBad news today from the Judiciary Committee. At the beginning of the year, I had high hopes for the Patriot Act reauthorization process. We had just elected a President with a strong civil liberties record in the Senate.
Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without chargesWhen Obama first unveiled his "preventive detention" policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that -- as he put it -- "my Administration will work with Congress to develop an appropriate legal regime." But now, relying exclus …
What Elizabeth Cheney's 1988 college thesis tells us about the Bush presidency. In 1988, while Dick Cheney was Wyoming's sole representative in the House of Representatives, his daughter's senior thesis was quietly published in Colorado Springs.
Biden evades question on possible prosecution of Bush adminJoe Biden would not directly answer a question about whether or not top-ranking members of the Bush administration should be prosecuted for abuse at prisons around the world.
Eric Holder on Bush, executive powerJudging by his past statements, Eric Holder Jr., reportedly Barack Obama's top pick for attorney general, may aim to roll back several of the Bush administration's most controversial legal moves if he is selected for the post.
Ten To Toss:The Bush executive orders that most deserve to be scrapped.The presidency comes with a superpowered pen for signing executive orders. Without negotiating with Congress to pass a law, or even going through the notice-and-comment period that precedes a new federal rule, the president can change the music that federal agencies dance to.
Sarah Palin's Wasteful Ways -- $50,000 in taxpayer money to redecorate the mayor's officeAccording to Carney, the newly elected mayor spent more than $50,000 in city funds to redecorate her office, without the council's authorization.
McCain misfires - - Breaking NewsPresidential power is metastasizing. President Bush has placed the nation on a permanent war footing with international terrorism in which every square inch of the planet is a battlefield where military law and military force may be employed.
Rather than continuing to run afoul of iarnuocon's restrictions on the discussion of his article about proof, using FEMA camps as a jumping off point, I guess I'll take his suggestion to take it elsewhere when the conversation ranges beyond his boundaries, and start one of my own …
Bush Signs Defense Authorization Bill and Claims Right to Violate ItPresident Bush signed the fiscal 2008 Defense authorization bill into law Monday, but not before stating that he reserves the right to disregard several sections.
Bush moves towards martial lawBush Moves Toward Martial Law Written by Frank Morales Thursday, 26 October 2006
Citizens Demand Los Angeles City Council Impeach George Bush and Dick CheneyThis past Friday, several dozen Angelenos, organized by the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC) under the leadership of LANIC Executive Director Peter Thottam, appeared before the Los Angeles City Council to demand that Los Angeles become the 82nd city in the nation t …
Prediction: Bush, Cheney NOT Leaving Office After 2008 ElectionCrazy conspiracy theory? Maybe not. Who could have predicted we'd be where we are today: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Katrina, NSA Wire-Taps, etc. Compelling argument
White House Asserts Executive PrivilegeThe White House, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial by conservative Harvard academic Harvey C. Mansfield (who?), entitled, The Case for the Strong Executive: Under some circumstances, the rule of law must yield to the need for energy.
Glenn Greenwald: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"The Wall St Journal online has today published a lengthy and truly astonishing article by Harvard Government Professor Harvey Mansfield, which expressly argues that the power of the President is greater than "the rule of law."
The President is Not Disappointed by Gonzalez TestimonyQ Was the President disappointed in the testimony? MS. PERINO: Is the President? No ok Q Dana, has the President spoken with Paul Wolfowitz over the last couple weeks?
Executive Excess: Where's Congress In This Power Play?For those of us involved in that effort to bring accountability and sunshine back to government, it is discouraging to read daily accounts of a new era of intelligence power abuses, growing out of a "war" on terrorism that is invoked to justify almost any secret measure.
Denouement on Iraq: First Stop the BleedingThe bottom line is you now have the power to end the most unconscionable and catastrophic foreign policy blunder in our nation's history.
While You Were Sleeping (Bush took over the Government)Yet another example of President Bush usurping and consolidating power in the White House.
Robert Parry: Bush Lies... and Knows He's LyingBush's defenders say he's just an honest guy who gets lots of bad information but the evidence points to a leader who wants his subordinates to give him a steady supply of "talking points" that can be used to achieve his goals whether the arguments are true, half true or totally …
September 11: The price we've paidThe blow inflicted on America by September 11 was unprecedented in its scale and horror. But is it really the date to remember? Five years on, it's clear that the true turning point for the world came seven days later.
Democrats urge broader review of Bush war powersSenior Democrats called on Sunday for a broader review of whether President George W. Bush had overstepped his war powers after the Supreme Court struck down his administration's Guantanamo military tribunals.
Op-Ed: America's Increasing Democracy DeficitThe Bush administration's reasoning is founded on a twisted form of Catch-22 logic.
Look Out, David Addington's Head Just ExplodedAnonymous Liberal notes that the Addington/Yoo view on executive power (the unitary executive) took a possibly lethal blow from the Hamdan v.
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