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Executive Power
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NY Times: Bush Warns of Vetoes Over Abortion Issue
Via yesterday's New York Times:President Bush told Congressional leaders Thursday that he would veto any legislation that weakened federal policies or laws on abortion.In a two-page letter sent to the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Lots of SCOTUS action including a notable cert grant
Main May 1, 2007Lots of SCOTUS action including a notable cert grantWhile I was off-line most of the day, the Supreme Court has one of its most active days of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A call for a broader pardon perspective
Main March 30, 2007A call for a broader pardon perspectiveOver at the National Journal, Jonathan Rauch has this strong new commentary entitled "Pardon Libby? Maybe, But Not Alone." Here are…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A Libby pardon and DOJ guidelines
Main March 11, 2007A Libby pardon and DOJ guidelinesA helpful reader pointed me to this effective Newsweek article spotlighting that President Bush would have to skirt the Justice Department's internal…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Interesting New Book
Natsu Taylor Saito (Georgia State), From Chinese Exclusion to Guantánamo Bay: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State (University Press of Colorado, 2007) Continuous expansion of executive power is igniting national…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Seeking information on state restrictions on clemency
Main January 20, 2007Seeking information on state restrictions on clemencyIn thinking about the sad Gerarlow Wilson case (background here), I learned that Georgia's legislature may have completely barred the state's…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Executive v. Executive
By Ellen Podgor
Who is in charge of the executive -- that is when it comes to the power of the President versus the Attorney General? According to the Washington Post here, it…
Sentencing Law and Policy
TheWashington Poston Bush’s pardons
Main December 28, 2004The Washington Post on Bush's pardonsThe Washington Post this morning is all over the pardon story, and the criticism of Bush's stingy use of his pardon power,…
LawSites
Hentoff on the Rumsfeld-Bush legal black hole
In a piece entitled, The Rumsfeld-Bush Legal Black Hole: Powers Formerly Reserved Only for Kings, Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff reports on a Feb. 6 report from The Association of…