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Showing posts with label unitary executive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unitary executive. Show all posts
Monday, October 7, 2013

Ian Millhiser — Catholic Bishops To House: Shut Down The Government Unless We Get Our Way On Birth Control

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One week before House Republicans shut down the government in an effort to force President Obama to enact many of their preferred policies,...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Ali Watkins — Sen. Wyden says he tried to warn of massive surveillance program

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“If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we will live to regret ...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Jonathan Turley — President Carter: "The United States Has No Functioning Democracy"

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Carter told Spiegel “America has no functioning democracy.” Of course, you have to live in Germany to read such views.... Carter’s voice ...
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Rod Bastanmehr — Surveillance State: Appeals Court Says Obama Administration Can Indefinitely Detain Americans

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Yet another worrisome expansion of executive powers. Translation: Making constitutional what is patently not only unconstitutional but als...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts — It's Time for Americans to Admit That We've Had a Coup d’etat

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Like serfs in the dark ages, American citizens can be picked up on the authority of some unknown person in the executive branch and thrown ...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Fred Branfman — Why the U.S. Executive Branch Is a Clear and Present Danger to Our Democracy

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Congress, judiciary and the mass media no longer provide constitutionally mandated checks and balances; they are largely extensions of Exec...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Jon Perr — Yoo Too, President Obama?

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Back in December 2005, John Yoo was asked if any law or treaty could prevent the President of the United States from torturing someone, ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Unitary executive, torture, and assassination

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An excerpt from the new book, 'Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture.' Ian Cobain Shocking Story of How the US Ignored Int...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley on Obama's statism

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TURLEY: Oh, President Obama has created an imperial presidency that would have made Richard Nixon blush. It is unbelievable. Shannyn Moore...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Chris Hedges — Criminalizing Dissent

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The very name of the law itself—the Homeland Battlefield Bill—suggests the totalitarian credo of endless war waged against enemies within “...
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