July 2, 2009
Michael O'Brien of The Hill reports that when President Obama signed the war funding bill last week the President issued a statement indicating that he would ignore certain provisions of the law that he considered unconstitutional. Although I agree with the President that the sections of the statute he objects to are an invasion of the [...]
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March 5, 2009
On January 15, 2009, just five days before tne end of the Presidency of George W. Bush and five days before the Inauguration of Barack Obama, Stephen G. Bradbury, a Bush administration official with the Justice Department, issued a memorandum withdrawing a number of Justice Department opinions that had been written by other Bush appointees in 2001 and 2002 declaring that [...]
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