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I thought this would be appropriate to discuss today - no matter who wins the presidency, they will be saddled with all the promises they ma...

This is a counterintuitive argument. Its generally held that Cheney - along with President Bush - increased presidential powers considerably...

The following are intended for my 2302 and this week's written assignment. These are a variety of stories related to the War Powers Reso...

The president took his message jusitifying the actioons against Libya public. No idea yet if it wil impact opinion. Andrew Sullivan summari...

This answers a question we discussed in class today regarding our "activities" in Libya.

Jack Goldsmith does not think they were a good idea, but thinks they are constitutional and fall within the limits of presidential military...

Dennis Kucinich thinks so : A hard-core group of liberal House Democrats is questioning the constitutionality of U.S. missile strikes agai...

Obama's decision to join the effort to enforce the U.N. Resolution against Libya seems to be justified by something called the Responsib...

Now that he's made a decision to commit forces without congressional approval, Andrew Sullivan thinks so : The proper response to this...

Last year the Washington Post published an interesting study of the security and intelligence apparatus set up after 9/11.

The renewed expansion of presidential power has obviously driven the publication of several books, here's the latest. Interestingly the ...

More for our upcoming 2302 discussion of executive power. A few links to information about President Obama's executive orders: - Natio...

Thanks to the intrepid student who pointed this article out to me . It's one man's take on the factors driving the expansion of pres...

Eric Posner reviews two books about the expansive powers of the president and the federal executive in general. His reviews illustrate some ...

This could a fun read .

From the NYT : Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overha...

While we are about to dig into the development of the executive branch, I thought it might be interesting to look at the role military has h...

How Caesarism Came to America .

I was just tracking some information down on John Conyers , who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, and ran across this report from March...

Some supporters of the Bush Administrations efforts to expand executive power argued that Obama would likely continue the trend. Power, once...