Obama May Bypass Guantánamo Rules, Aides Say

NYT ^ | 1/31/11 | Charlie Savage

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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s legal advisers, confronting the prospect of new restrictions on the transfer of Guantánamo detainees, are debating whether to recommend that he issue a signing statement asserting that his executive powers would allow him to bypass the restrictions, according to several officials. If Mr. Obama were to issue such a statement, it could represent a more aggressive use of unilateral executive powers than what he exerted in his first two years in office. Mr. Obama could act on the measure by the end of the week. The issue has arisen as the Republican Party takes control

[Nachum]

Rules are for suckers

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[calex59]

Why doesn't he just issue an EO that says that he doesn't have to follow any rules but his own?

Hell, think of the money we could save if we disbanded the Senate and the House?/SAR

[Ramius]

What “rules”?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Veto it, Big Ears, or else obey. America expects nothing less from a president.

[R0CK3T]

Sounds like maybe Chavez gave Hitlery his playbook when the met this week, and now 0bama’s got a new toy to play with.

[dennisw]

Africa is infested with such dictators

[Paladin2]

Zer0 & H0lder are leftist Wusses.

[chris_bdba]

Congress passed lawa about this issue can he do that? They still hve the power of the purse.

[Paladin2]

Nail his tanned hide to the shed, Fred.

[denydenydeny]

In 2006, the American Bar Association declared that presidents should veto legislation they view as flawed rather than issue signing statements, which the group portrayed as “contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional separation of powers.” One member of the Obama legal team, Harold Koh, the State Department legal adviser, was a member of a task force that developed that declaration.

Slimy hypocrites.

[FARS]

In case you missed this and even if not, the Canadian article is worth a second read.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/01/do-you-fear-obama-you-should.html

[American Constitutionalist]

Thank you.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[PIF]

Hey FARS, Dinner Jacket is having problems at home in today’s debkafile...

[Dilbert56]

Let’s cut funding for Air Force One, halfway through one of his overseas trips.

[dforest]

Here he goes. He is Hugo Chavez twin marxist.

[SoFloFreeper]

Obama doesn’t have to abide by rules. Gimme a break. He is the first black President, dammit.

[onedoug]

Uh...that was BJ, by acclamation.

[Hotlanta Mike]

"Here he goes. He is Hugo Chavez twin marxist."