Unitary Executive

Friday Talking Points -- Obama's Fourteenth Option

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.07.2011

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Chris Weigant

The silly season has come early to Washington, it seems. The root cause is a simple fact of American politics these days -- sometimes, there just can't be transparency.

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Jason Linkins

White House Expands On Executive Powers Once Criticized By Obama, No Doubt To The Delight Of The Base

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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As you may have heard, in these last eight weeks of the campaign season, the Democrats are going to be ramping up efforts to remind voters of how bad ...

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America's Iraqi Strategic Blunder

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fernando Espuelas

Even in 2002, in the midst of the fear campaign unleashed by Bush's White House to create public support for an invasion of Iraq, credible voices in the American mainstream questioned the claims.

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"Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

While the bomb ended World War II, it also started a chain reaction that exploded into America's permanent secret security state -- with emphasis on the word 'permanent.'

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Elena Kagan and the Limits of Executive Power

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Sargus Klein

Kagan may very well prove to be an albatross around the Obama administration, both in real time and in the textbooks, as she represents the Executive Branch far outpacing the courts.

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Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Milazzo

Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.

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Jason Linkins

Sotomayor An Unknown Quantity On Executive Power Issues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Back in the dark ages of, say, yesterday, when I had settled into the (totally wrong) mindset that today's nomination announcement was going the way o...

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Transferring Some Guantanamo Detainees to the U.S. Will Actually Make America Safer

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Creamer

Why take the "chance" by bringing additional Guantanamo detainees to our shores? Because it is essential to our national security that we close it down -- and this step is necessary to make that happen.

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 6, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 3, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's Friday, and I'm feeling generous and mercurial, so here's a fun and shameless plug! Los Angelenos in the house? This Saturday, enjoy the dynami...

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Conservative Lawyers Defend Holder (and the Unitary Executive)

Doug Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011

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Doug Kendall

The letter in defense of Eric Holder is a classic articulation of the idea that the President is a unitary executive. It also happens to be essentially right.

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What Will Happen to the "Unitary Executive" in the Next Presidential Term?

Charles Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Shaw

The policy of the "Unitary Executive" (which grants Bush unchecked power during national emergencies) was the "single most successfully implemented policy" of the Bush/Cheney administration.

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King George and the U.S. of A(T&T)

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paula Gordon

Granting immunity to telephone companies illegally spying on Americans is far worse than business-as-usual, which is that corporations win.

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