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Presidential Veto

Obama Must Veto Defense Authorization Bill

Ginny Sloan | Posted 02.12.2012 | Politics
Read More: Indefinite Detention Veto, National Security, Presidential Veto, Terrorism, Ndaa, Defense Authorization Bill, Politics News
Ginny Sloan

If members of Congress choose -- for the first time in our nation's history -- to codify a system of indefinite detention without charge and authorize such confinement on the basis of suspicion alone, they will do so with their eyes wide open.

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The Constitution We Nearly Had

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 11.15.2011 | Politics
Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Treaties, Presidential Veto, Founding Fathers, Constitution Day, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Constitutional Convention, U.S. Constitution, Constitution, Original Intent, Tea Party, Rick Perry, Politics News
Robert J. Spitzer

Imagine a very different Constitution -- one where Congress could kill any state law, where a twenty-six member Senate controlled treaty-making with other nations, and where the president's veto was exercised jointly with the Supreme Court.

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Why Obama Must Embrace the Veto Strategy

Robert J. Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Bill Clinton, Tea Party, Alexander Hamilton, Presidential Signing Statements, Signing Statements, Bush Veto, Death Panels, Presidential Veto, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, Founding Fathers, James Madison, Congress, Veto, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert J. Spitzer

Barack Obama understands that the country wants a president who acts. And as the new, Tea Party-tainted Congress is spoiling for confrontation, now is the ideal moment for a true veto strategy.

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