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19 Jun 2011, 6:25 am by Jonathan H. Adler
During the Bush Administration, the White House did not seek Congressional approval of some anti-terror initiatives because some within the Administration — most notably, Dick Cheney — wished to establish the principle that the Executive could act unilaterally to address national security concerns. [read post]
18 Jun 2011, 5:35 am by JB
That is, Bush (assisted by his Vice-President, Dick Cheney) arranged matters so that decisions about waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques would be in the hands of lawyers he knew would tell him yes; the normal process of collating opinions was short-circuited and other lawyers were effectively frozen out.Obama's practice is different, but it has disturbing similarities. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 9:06 pm by Howard Friedman
Bush Republican, meaning a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, or a Dick Cheney who, like I believe, the congresswoman just said, this should be made -- this decision, same sex marriage, should be a state's decision? [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew Goldberg
  Even David Addington, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime advocate for the expansion of executive branch authority with regard to Congress, weighed in this week, authoring a Heritage Foundation memo on patent reform that also took issue with the provision that would make the PTO self-financing. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew Goldberg
  Even David Addington, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime advocate for the expansion of executive branch authority with regard to Congress, weighed in this week, authoring a Heritage Foundation memo on patent reform that also took issue with the provision that would make the PTO self-financing. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:15 pm by Andrew Goldberg
  Even David Addington, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and longtime advocate for the expansion of executive branch authority with regard to Congress, weighed in this week, authoring a Heritage Foundation memo on patent reform that also took issue with the provision that would make the PTO self-financing. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 1:27 pm by The Editors
  They join the ranks of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Marc Thiessen, Michael Mukasey, and, of course, the former President himself, George W. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 7:10 am by Lisa McElroy
Even if you don’t have a calendar handy, you can tell it’s June. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 6:02 am by Mark J. Astarita, Esq.
Supreme Court made it easier for investors to press securities fraud suits, ruling for shareholders who accuse Halliburton Co. of misrepresenting its financial condition while under Dick Cheney’s leadership.The justices today unanimously said the shareholders can sue as a group without first establishing that they lost money as a [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 2:01 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Washingtonian magazine has published this profile of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s counselor, David Addington, who is now at the Heritage Foundation. [read post]
25 May 2011, 11:16 am by Rumpole
Ever. 2) Upon agreement of the prosecution to refer a client to PTI, the client will have to drive to a small undisclosed location in Hialeah, which is actually where the government often hid President Dick Cheney when Bin Laden was alive and not viewing pornography.3) Upon locating the undisclosed location in Hialeah, the client will be required to wait six hours, or until the clerk in the attorneys room on the 9th floor returns from wherever they disappear to whenever we step up… [read post]
23 May 2011, 12:32 pm by David Kravets
The government demanded back the money, plus interest, after then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney claimed in 1991 that the companies were in default on a 1988 contract to build eight of the planes for $4.4 billion. [read post]
23 May 2011, 5:00 am by Kevin
 Any lawsuit against John Yoo or Dick Cheney probably has at least some merit, but many other political figures of both parties are named, as well as John Demjanjuk, Lynndie England, SF's MUNI transit system, NAMBLA, the KKK, and the U.S. [read post]
11 May 2011, 7:00 am by Tom Parker
Partisans of torture, like former Vice President Dick Cheney and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen, have pounced on this possibility as vindication of their ‘hard-line’ position. [read post]
9 May 2011, 10:32 am by John Richards
Anyway, a former Pentagon employee filed a lawsuit against former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and other former Bush administration officials, alleging that they played a role in the attack in which she and her daughter were injured. [read post]
5 May 2011, 2:01 pm
If George Bush and Dick Cheney couldn’t hunt him down, there’s no way that tree-hugging Oreo did. [read post]
4 May 2011, 1:32 pm by Jeralyn
He reminds us: The "war on terror" was made to order for the post-cold war era, and enthusiasts such as then Vice President Dick Cheney noticed this immediately, before any wars were launched. [read post]