Posted on 11/19/2001 7:59:49 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan have dramatically accelerated a push by the Bush administration to strengthen presidential powers, giving President Bush a dominance over American government exceeding that of other post-Watergate presidents and rivaling even Franklin D. Roosevelt's command.
On a wide variety of fronts, the administration has moved to seize power that it has shared with other branches of government. In foreign policy, Bush announced vast cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal but resisted putting the cuts in a treaty -- thereby averting a Senate ratification vote. In domestic policy, the administration proposed reorganizing the Immigration and Naturalization Service without the congressional action lawmakers sought. And in legal policy, the administration seized the judiciary's power as Bush signed an order allowing terrorists to be tried in military tribunals.
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It makes a lot of difference, bucko, in determining the validity of a journalist's criticisms.
Does Dana Milbank's hypocrisy excuse your hypocrisy?
Once again, knock off the abusive posts.
Freepers called for impeachment (rightfully so) over Clinton's perjury. What if Clinton had signed this EO? What would you have said then?
I would have examined the circumstances - we were never at war during the Clinton Administration, so it's a moot point. But there is historical precedent for these actions, and this is a serious national emergency. The important step is to confine these actions to actual foreign terrorists. If these actions are expanded, then I will oppose them.
If lawyers can find a "right to abortion" in the constitution, they can certainly UPDATE the intent of the word "reprisal."
What....you having a bad hair day? Or are you always a jerk?
Don't mean to butt in, but the Supreme Court slapped Lincoln's heiny in the 1865 Merryman decision. Chief Justice Taney ruled that the President has no authority whatsoever to suspend habeus corpus -- only the legislature may. Shortly after the decision, Congress passed a statute suspending the writ in some cases.
the link goes nowhere - has it been pulled?
You are so right and this is a point totally missed by the MSM and their general masses of public listers and readers.
There is a reason the founders did not allow the Congress to execute a war - they would have micromanaged it into a loss. The CIC is the only one authorized to execute the war once Congress has authorized and funded such.
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