above the law

• Art is not above the law.

In western democracies legislative shifts occur in response to changing societal views and values. Over time--together with media coverage of varying ...

• Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
• Nbr. 2011, July 2011

• Right View: ; Above the Law On Libya

The U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war, intervention that began with a surplus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law. In a bipartisan cascade of hypocrisies, a liberal president, with the collaborative silence of most congressional conservatives, is traducing the War Powers Resolution. Enacted in 1973 over President Nixon's veto, the WPR may or may not be wise. It is, however, unquestionably a law, and Barack Obama certainly is violating it. It stipulates that a president must terminate military action 60 days after initiating it (or 90, if the president "certifies" in writing an "unavoidable military necessity" respecting the safety of U.S. forces), unless Congress approves it. Congress has been supine and...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• May 31, 2011

• A President Above the Law

The U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war, intervention that began with a surplus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law. In a bipartisan cascade of hypocrisies, a liberal president, with the collaborative silence of most congressional conservatives, is traducing the War Powers Resolution. Enacted in 1973 over President Nixon's veto, the WPR may or may not be wise. It is, however, unquestionably a law, and Barack Obama certainly is violating it. It stipulates that a president must terminate military action 60 days after initiating it (or 90, if the president "certifies" in writing an "unavoidable military necessity" respecting the safety of U.S. forces), unless Congress approves it. Congress has been ...

• Buffalo News
• May 31, 2011

• Above the Law

WASHINGTON The U.S. intervention in Libya's civil war, intervention that began with a surplus of confusion about capabilities and a shortage of candor about objectives, is now taking a toll on the rule of law. In a bipartisan cascade of hypocrisies, a liberal president, with the collaborative silence of most congressional conservatives, is traducing the War Powers Resolution (WPR).

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• May 29, 2011

• Couch Slouch: ; Tressel Knew He Was Above the Law

Item 1: Stanford athletes had an "easy-class list" to advise them how to fill out their quarterly course loads. Item 2: Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel failed to notify school officials when he found out some of his players had sold memorabilia in exchange for cash and tattoos.

• Charleston Gazette
• March 15, 2011

• Above the Law

Reports of American soldiers' atrocities against prisoners at Abu Ghraib, elsewhere in Iraq, and in Afghanistan have already eroded Americans' support for the Iraq war, emboldened opposition abroad to the "Bush Doctrine" of preemptive military action, and threatened the president's reelection campaign. Magarian shares his views on the danger of blindly trusting presidential and military judgment in conducting military affairs without any legal check or oversight.

• Commonweal
• July 30, 2009

• Above the Law

These days, we have an increasing number of politicians, sports champions and Hollywood icons who believe that they are , that normal standards don't apply to them. Tiger Woods just admitted to having believed that about himself, along with Gov. Elliot Spitzer and Sen. John Edwards. The votes of too many congressmen and senators are for sale, if the bribe is large enough! Is it any wonder that today's kids are confused and that suicide among them is on the rise? Could the lack of good role models, in addition to receiving poor teaching, explain why most of them drink alcohol and have sex younger and younger? They aren't born automatically knowing right from wrong and that bad decisions have consequences. They must be taught that each of them is a created person with a speci...

• Bangor Daily News
• March 02, 2010

• Mubarak Trial has Message -- Maybe Tyrants Aren't Above the Law

CAIRO - Facing tenacious uprisings, the leaders of Syria, Libya and Yemen must have thought of their own possible fates when they saw their one-time peer Hosni Mubarak in a defendants cage, on trial for charges that could carry a death sentence. For the three authoritarian Arab leaders, the choices are limited: Cling to power at any cost, negotiate immunity or find a foreign haven.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 08, 2011

• No One Is Above the Law in U.S.

The case of the Fullerton police officers charged last week with murder and manslaughter in the death of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year- old, mentally ill homeless man, will be as complicated and controversial and gut-wrenching a trial as anything this side of Rodney King. It will be long and divisive and call into question practically every aspect of the complex relationships between law-enforcement officials and the rest of society. Its resolution will not come quickly or easily.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• September 25, 2011

• Police Chief: Double-Parking Wife Not Above the Law

LODI, N.J. - A New Jersey police chief said no one is above the law - not even his wife. Lodi Police Chief Vincent Caruso ordered an officer to ticket his wife after she double-parked while dropping off their

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• October 05, 2011