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Blog Entries by Peter M. Shane from 01/2009

Executive Vigor Without Executive Arrogance II: A Primer on Executive Orders

| Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Read More: Checks and Balances, Executive Order, Unitary Presidency, Midnight Regulation, Obama, Executive Power, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News

If the President issues a pardon, no later President can undo it. After George H. W. Bush pardoned the Iran-Contra defendants, Presidents Clinton could not say: "Hold on! I'm taking those pardons back!"

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Executive Vigor Without Executive Arrogance III: Three Steps Away from the Unitary Presidency

| Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
Read More: Stem Cell Research, Unitary Presidency, Executive Order, Executive Power, Checks and Balances, Midnight Regulation, Obama, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News

My last two posts focused on whether a newly inaugurated President Obama can move energetically to displace Bush-era policy without embracing a radica...

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Obama's First Executive Order Strikes a Blow for Transparency and the Rule of Law

| Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
Read More: Checks and Balances, Transparency, Executive Privilege, Presidential Records, Executive Order, Obama, Separation of Powers, Rule of Law, 100 Days, Politics News

Obama's first executive order revoked Bush's constitutionally lunatic procedure for enabling former presidents and vice presidents to limit public access to their records.

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The Audacity of Rush Limbaugh's Hope: Standing Up to the Hubris of a Bully

| Posted 01.29.2009 | Media
Read More: Rush Limbaugh Obama, Media, Rush Limbaugh, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Media News

Rush Limbaugh wants Obama to fail. Why? Because people might stop paying attention to Rush Limbaugh.

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