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Reject False Choices Between Law Enforcement & Military

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Christine Pelosi

As Obama tasks our independent judiciary with trying more suspected 9/11 terrorists, count me among those who agree with Mayor Giuliani's first position on trying alleged terrorists in US courts: in the yes column

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President Obama's Signing Statements and Congress's Response: A Return to Separation of Powers Sanity?

Peter M. Shane | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

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Peter M. Shane

The intriguing debate continues on President Obama's use of signing statements to protest provisions of statutes he is signing into law.

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Times' Sanger Concerned about Concentration of Power

Mike Smith | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama, David Sanger, Separation of Powers, Obama Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Obama Transition, Media News
Mike Smith

The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power looks at how the Obama Administration faces global challenges not of its own making.

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Sam Stein

Obama And Congress Learn To Dance

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tad Devine, Steve Elmendorf, Paul Begala, Congress Obstruction, Obama Republicans, Barack Obama Democrats, Obama Agenda, Separation of Powers, Ed Rollins, Barack Obama, Obama Congress, Politics News

As he prepares to take the oath of office, Barack Obama's biggest political roadblock may end up being institutional hurdles rather than a united Repu...

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Executive Vigor Without Executive Arrogance I: Ending the Reign of Signing Statements

Peter M. Shane | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Checks and Balances, Obama, Separation of Powers, Signing Statements, Executive Power, Barack Obama, Bush, Politics News
Peter M. Shane

With supporters clamoring for the new president to wipe away Bush-era policies with a stroke of a pen, how can the new president wield his own pen without embracing the Bush assault on constitutionalism?

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Political Parties Are Not "Checks" Or "Balances"

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I'm not worried about whether checks and balances will disappear if Republicans don't have more than 40 seats in the Senate. True checks and balances are more fundamental than party affiliation.

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Palin: What Should Worry Us Most

William Fisher | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

During the run-up to the election that made Sarah Palin the governor of Alaska, the right-wing pro-life group Eagle Forum sent a detailed questionnair...

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New War Powers Legislation Called For By Panel

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan stud...

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Precedent George Bush

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.

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