Unitary Executive

Sotomayor An Unknown Quantity On Executive Power Issues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, Obama-Sonia-Sotomayor, Unitary Executive, Executive Power, Media News

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 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Closing Guantanamo, National Security, Breaking News, Guantanamo, American Values, Obama, Due Process, Unitary Executive, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News

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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Scritti Politti: April 6, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ethics in Journalism, Media Criticism, Wiretapping, David Weigel, Ethics, Financial Crisis, William K. Black, Calculated Risk, Israel, Mark Halperin, Unitary Executive, Telecom Immunity, Journalism, The Washington Independent, Politics News

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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Scritti Politti: April 3, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Obama g20, Spain War Crimes, Pundits, Obama Inauguration, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, John Yoo Torture, Predictions, Chip Reid, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Drudge Report, Unitary Executive, Politics News

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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The Fisherman Rules -- An Audio Book Review

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Vice President, Penguin Audio, Military Tribunals, Colin Powell, Pakistan, John Yoo, George W. Bush, Secret Service, 9/11, David Frost, David Addington, Brian Keith Lewis, Unitary Executive, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, Iran, Angler, Iraq Invasion, Saudi Arabia, Jack Bauer, Darth Vader, Scooter Libby, Torture, Huffpost Books, Books, Audiobooks, Wire Tapping, Nixon, Barton Gellman, Media News

The Secret Service call him Angler because he fishes. In this audiobook, you'll hear why so many call him the most significant vice president our country has experienced -- ever.

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Conservative Lawyers Defend Holder (and the Unitary Executive)

Doug Kendall | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder Attorney General, Presidential Power, John Yoo, Constitution, Unitary Executive, Surveillance. Torture, Barack Obama, Rule of Law, Dick Cheney, Politics News

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 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Extra-Legal, Cheney, Unitary Executive Theory, Martial Law, Unitary Executive, Torture, Anti-Terror Legislation, Bush, Bush Administration Torture, Michael Mukasey, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News

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 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Monarchists, Magna Carta, Fisa, Sovereignty, Congress, Unitary Executive, Federalists, High-Federalists, Politics News

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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History Lessons

Janet Ritz | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Iran, John McCain, Rachel Maddow, George W. Bush, War With Iran, James Madison, Breaking Politics News, Thomas Jefferson, Iraq, Caesar, History Channel, 2008 Election, Unitary Executive, Solon, Politics News

The Bush administration's seeming incompetence, its torture memos and its rush to war parallels the way that Caesar and his contemporaries used war to further wealth and political ambition.

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George W. Bush Should Be Impeached for this "Signing Statement"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Signing Statements, Impeachment, Unitary Executive, George W. Bush, Politics News

The United States Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush this afternoon. Once again, he has violated the U.S....

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