The George W. Bush administration will long be remembered for its constitutional and legal arguments on behalf of exclusive and inherent executive power. In its extreme form, this uncompromising effort appears to have failed, and may even have pushed the judicial branch to limit executive authority and return to a more traditional insistence on interbranch cooperation in foreign affairs. Ironically, the Bush-Cheney legal legacy ultimately will depend on the Barack Obama administration's public commitments and legal arguments, but early evidence suggests that President Obama's assertions of executive power will rest less on assertions of constitutional prerogative, and more heavily on statutory delegation as well as long-standing judicial precedent.
Abuse of executive power by the Bush administration was one of the principal themes of last year's presidential and congressional elections. It was remarkable, within that environment, that the Senate adjourned without passing a law that could serve as an important check on such abuses. The House last year overwhelmingly passed a federal "shield" law to enable journalists to protect the identity of sources who provide them with information that could not be disclosed if the sources had to be publicly identified. The law is not limited to government sources, but as a practical matter that is the area in which reporters most often have been threatened by federal courts with incarceration, fines or both for declining to identify news sources.
The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Tuesday, March 3: The decision by the Obama administration to charge alleged al- Qaida sleeper agent Ali al-Marri with criminal conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists is a major turning point in the war on terror. Marri was the last alleged terrorist being held in a military prison in this country under the "enemy combatant" designation. This deprived him of all his legal rights under a novel and dangerous doctrine of executive power conceived by the Bush administration. Let's hope this is the last we see of it.
I think health care is a major issue. I think it's ridiculous that we're the only civilized nation that doesn't have nationalized health care at this point. I think the Bush administration has gone to extremes as far as executive power and it [should] be changed. I'd like to see a candidate who's willing to step back from that. I was a big supporter of [Dennis] Kucinich. Our foreign policy definitely needs to change and [be] more friendly. He talks about strength through peace, which ... I think is a very strong message.
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Alexander Hamilton's writings, virtually alone among the framers, were invoked by President George W. Bush and his legal advisors as the cornerstone of the administration's assertions of sweeping executive powers in the areas of war and peace and national security. The Bush administration's conscription of Hamilton to justify its soaring claims of presidential power, however, represents a distortion and abuse of his views of the latter president's views, particularly those expressed in The Federalist Papers. With the loss of Hamilton as an intellectual pillar, President Bush's theory of a plenary executive power finds no support among the framers. Analysis of Hamilton's writings will repair his undeserved reputation as an apologist for expansive executive powers.
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The Supreme Court yesterday said it will decide whether President Bush exceeded his authority when he ordered a Texas court in 2005 to comply with an international tribunal's ruling challenging the death sentence of a Mexican national who raped and killed two girls. In a case that pits Bush administration's claims of executive power against the role of international law in state court proceedings, the high court agreed to hear arguments this fall to determine the fate of Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican national sentenced in 1994 for the Houston killings.
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