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16 May 2008, 3:50 am
PS: The person who comes out as the leader is David Addington. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 12:47 pm
  To the extent Eric or Ben is proposing such a statute (and I don't quite read Ben to be advocating that, except perhaps in his hypothesized emergency "exception"), it's simply a political nonstarter (for which I am thankful). [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 8:03 am
  However, as Balkin's post makes very clear, that op-ed did not defend the Yoo/Addington theory. [read post]
28 Mar 2008, 3:10 pm
If Calabresi's is truly the view of the unitary executive proponents, they don't speak about it much in mixed company -- because to do so would reveal the radical nature of their otherwise reasonable-sounding theory: Taken seriously, Justice Scalia's widely admired arguments in Morrison would call into question the independence of the Fed and many other agencies that the public now assumes will and should act independently of White House control. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 1:13 am
To the extent Jack is referring to the principal provision of the WPR, prohibiting the President from engaging in military hostilities for more than 90 days without congressional authorization, the notion that Presidents have uniformly condemned its constitutionality is often asserted, but that don't make it true. [read post]
22 Dec 2007, 12:50 am
Let's put it this way: If you've liked Dick Cheney and David Addington, you're gonna love Mitt Romney.Candidates Giuliani, Huckabee and Thompson refused to respond to the questionaire. [read post]
8 Dec 2007, 9:03 am
., when the President was prepared to adopt Addington's views rather than theirs, and to break the law contrary to their judgment. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 10:11 pm
I just don't quite see the value in OPM evaluating the bona fides or "competence" of OLC's legal advice. [read post]
12 Oct 2007, 10:24 am
That Goldsmith stood up to the onslaughts is highly creditable, although the credit is lessened by the fact that Goldsmith, like some others in the bureaucracy, has chosen to regard Addington as a patriot who uses an allegedly high order of intellect to seek to protect the American people, instead of regarding Addington (and his master, Cheney) as the authoritarian traitors to the American constitutional system that they are. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 8:29 am
Goldsmith argues that the Cheney-Addington effort to expand presidential power has backfired, and the ironic result is that future presidents will be weaker. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 5:08 am
I love a good inside-baseball Washington tell-all book as much as the next guy. [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 9:04 am
JACK GOLDSMITH:You're right; I don't impugn the integrity of anyone. [read post]
4 Sep 2007, 9:17 am
The members included Gonzales, Addington, Haynes and Yoo. [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 3:20 pm
These guys, however, don't give an inch, while everyone else is still in the reality-based community that they know and love. [read post]
20 May 2007, 10:01 pm
But the law being violated here -- FISA -- was much more important than the one being violated at the Watergate Hotel, and in some sense the threat to the Constitution is much greater here, too, because, pace the David Frost incident, Nixon did not actually think or argue that the break-in (or most of the cover-up) was legal, whereas the Bush/Cheney/Addington theory of the Constitution would quite forthrightly allow the President to disregard statutes and treaties whenever he thinks they… [read post]