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Executive Power
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The Faculty Lounge
Call for Papers: CWRU Law Review Symposium
The Case Western Reserve Law Review is issuing a call for proposals in connection with the Law Review symposium to be convened at the CWRU School of Law on Friday,…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration Article of the Day: Cooperative Immigration Federalism and Executive Power: The Making and Unmaking of Immigration Policy Post-DACA by Ming Hsu Chen
Cooperative Immigration Federalism and Executive Power: The Making and Unmaking of Immigration Policy Post-DACA by Ming Hsu Chen University of Colorado Law SchoolAbstract: In the last two years, all three…
The Right Coast
The ‘Absurd Results’ Power Grab – WSJ.com
The Obama Administration's penchant for rewriting the law via regulation will get a major test on Monday when the Supreme Court hears a challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's "carbon…
The Faculty Lounge
More Lawless Action
In a prior post I contended that President Obama has exceeded his constitutional and statutory authority repeatedly. The latest ukase from the Obama administration (see here, here, and here) only…
The Faculty Lounge
The Unbearable Lawlessness of Obama
“We can’t wait for Congress,” said President Obama. He’s got a pen and he says he will use it. He’s been using it for some time in a fashion that…
The Right Coast
Obama s power play – POLITICO.com Print View
Americans heard President Barack Obama declare this week that he intends to bypass the gridlocked Hill to get things done on his own. What they didn t hear: just how…
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A Pen, a Phone, and a Flailing President – NationalJournal.com
Obama is right. Polls show the public is growing weary of him, which is a shame because he's still got three years in office. There are big problems to solve,…
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A Moment of High Constitutional Candor « Commentary Magazine
As John Steele Gordon predicted, the Supreme Court argument on President Obama s recess appointments was high constitutional drama. SCOTUSblog reports there were long lines and cameras outside, a full press…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Spitzer Compares Bush and Obama
Robert J. Spitzer (SUNY Cortland) recently posted perhaps the most recent comparison of assertions of executive power in the Bush and Obama presidencies coming out of the political science world:…
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George Will: Obama s extreme use of executive discretion – The Washington Post
Republicans tend to regard Obama s aggressive assertion of enforcement discretion as idiosyncratic an anti-constitutional impatience arising from his vanity. This interpretation is encouraged by his many assertions that he…