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On Monday , Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson unveiled the Bush administration's " Blueprint for Stronger Regulatory Structure ," its latest response to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and severe case of influenza affecting America's financial markets. No Read More...
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Two thoughts in response to Marty's provocative questions : First, I think having a relatively independent DNI probably is manageable constitutionally. We already have, after all, an FBI director who is appointed for a term of years that does not coincide Read More...
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I'm not inclined to defend Cheney's freelancing in Heller , but I do think David's being a little too facile when he says in this post that "the next time a unitarian tells you the JAGs in the military, civil rights lawyers in Justice, or scientists throughout Read More...
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David continued the conversation on the compatibility of Cheney's assertion that the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch and his support for the theory of the Unitary Executive by posing a couple of questions. Given that I've done my best Read More...
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[Dawn Johnsen] I have time only for a quick response to Adam White on Cheney’s assertion that the VP is not part of the executive branch. I did find ludicrous Cheney’s initial claim that he was not part of the executive branch, which he asserted for the Read More...
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[Adam White] Dawn, you seemed to misunderstand my argument when you ascribed to me the position that "we can have constitutional entities not squarely in one of the three constitutional boxes." In the first part of my argument , I tried to make clear Read More...
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While I don't have thoughts on the substantive merits of Heller [FN1], David's comment on the Cheney brief's implications for the unitary executive raises an issue that's interested me greatly. Simply put, I don't think that the vice president's support Read More...
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Regarding Dahlia's post , Mukasey's comments were unwise but not hard to understand. Death is the supreme punishment for an ordinary criminal, but it is also the supreme test for people who seek to live up to their ideals. We would not remember Nathan Read More...
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What do you all make of Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s reported comments in London last week that the 9/11 plotters the Pentagon will be trying at Guantanamo Bay should not be executed even if they’re convicted? These are the same terrorists who’ve Read More...
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David I had a little fun with the exploding unitary executive last week as did Marty and I’d give a donut to anyone who can offer insight on what end is served by these attacks from within the administration and without. What point in making Solicitor Read More...
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[David Barron] By noting the Vice President's surprising comfort level with his own independence - as I did in an earlier post on the Binary Executive - I did not mean to argue Cheney was acting illegally by striking out on his own. My point was to highlight Read More...
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We already knew that Vice President Cheney was comfortable arguing that his office was not part of the ... well ... the executive branch. In arguing that an executive order covering the executive branch did not apply to the vice president, he seemed to Read More...
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