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Executive Power
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EPA Clean Air Regulation and the Imperial Presidency
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Gene Healy, VP of the Cato Institute, argued earlier this week in the Washington Examiner that the EPA's initiative to regulate greenhouse gases from large facilities under the Clean Air Act…
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Rove and Miers to Testify Publicly?
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers intends to call on former Bush administration officials Karl Rove and Harriet Miers to testify publicly before the Committee this fall regarding the politicized firing…
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“Preventative Detention Model Act”: Framework for Obama?
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The likelihood of an Executive Order on "indefinite detention" is being widely discussed. For example, the Washington Post reported yesterday:Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress thatcould stall plans…
The Right Coast
The Unitary ExecutiveMike Rappaport
Not just for Republicans, as Obama fires an Inspector General because he raised questions about an Obama supporter's receipt of a government grant. The firing appears to have been in…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Restraining Executive Power: The Views of Arlen Specter
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In a just published article in The New York Review of Books here, Arlen Specter, Senior Republican United States Senator from Pennsylvania and Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee,…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Chafetz on Executive Contempt of Congress
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As is well known by now, the House Judiciary Committee last spring filed a complaint in federal court against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and then-Chief of Staff Josh Bolton for contempt…
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Obama Issues Signing Statement with Constitutional Objections
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President Obama yesterday issued a statement upon signing H.R. 1105, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, claiming that certain portions of the Act unconstitutionally infringe upon his executive authority and…
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Bush Lawyers’ OLC Memos: How Bad is Too Bad?
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Charlie Savage and Scott Shane in today's NYT take a look at this question: "What is a government lawyer's responsibility if legal advice he gives turns out to be, in…
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Obama’s “personality” and Executive power
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An article of interest on Obama's first month in office by Elizabeth Drew in The New York Review of Books is available here.Drew portrays Obama as a thoughtful person and…
Sentencing Law and Policy
More back-story on President Bush’s resistance to concluding clemencies
Main February 18, 2009More back-story on President Bush's resistance to concluding clemenciesThe New York Times has this new story with more on Dick Cheney major (failed) final push to get…