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The Supreme Court is now deliberating on the most important case in the Bush presidency, a case that can set precedents for future presidents during what the defendant, Donald Rumsfeld, admits will be a decades-long war against terrorism. It is so important that Chief Justice John Roberts made availabe audiotapes of the oral arguments on the same day. Here, Hentoff talks about issues surrounding Pres Bush's assumption of supremacy over Congress and the Courts, which is now in peril.
...Bush's "unprecedented arrogation of power.". A telling illustration of how the fate...might be swept up within this broad definition of conspiracy. And that's why international law ha...
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...-of- powers doctrine-emphasizing arrogation of power by a branch and impairment of another bra... the pre-incorporation administrative definition, the Court explained that "[t]he statutory term 'e...
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... laws cannot justify the judicial arrogation of remedial authority not fairly encompassed withi...The breadth of 2(3)'s definition is striking: the Act squarely applies to "any empl...
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... which a petitioner had satisfied any definition of actual innocence. Though some such decisions ex...It is a failure of logic, and an arrogation of authority, to "guide" that discretion by holdin...
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... failed to furnish a precise definition of the term "Jew" for that purpose, despite its aw... is problematic due to the court's arrogation of a role properly belonging to the legislature. I...
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... Terms and Definitions D. Health Insurance Reforms ... by design, in order to prevent the arrogation of power by one branch or one sovereign. See Grego...
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... Terms and Definitions D. Health Insurance Reforms ... by design, in order to prevent the arrogation of power by one branch or one sovereign. See Grego...
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On July 17, President Bush signed an executive order claiming the right to "block" the property of anyone who commits an "act ... threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the government of Iraq, or undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.
Blocking" means that the property cannot be "transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in." "Blocking" is like freezing assets.
... executive order is so sweeping in its arrogation of power to the Executive Branch, and so vague in its definition of "acts," that the property of half our populatio...
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...; but we did not disturb the class definition. See 457 U. S., at 997, n. 11, 999-1002. 360. Cali...In a striking arrogation of power, the District Court sought to micromanage...
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..., may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." Yet today, it has become routine for .... Most ominous is the arrogation by the executive branch--the presidency and its su...