Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein is an American lawyer who specializes in constitutional and international law. Fein has written numerous articles on constitutional issues for The Washington Times, Slate.com, The New York Times, and Legal Times, and is active on civil liberties issues. He has worked for the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, both conservative think tanks, as an analyst and commentator...
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Katherine Harris is going to live and die on (President Bush's) coattails. She is not someone who has political legs. She is more tied to the president than the ordinary member of the House.
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He will not be blunderbuss and say the president has carte blanche, ... On the other hand, he is not going to ignore national security. He will pay deference, but not blind deference.
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He is a man who is not tortured by doubt over the correctness of his judicial philosophy.
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There is no pattern of demonstration that justices appointed by the president then try to defend the president's constitutional prerogatives.
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He's living in a time warp. The great irony is Bush inherited the strongest presidency of anyone since Franklin Roosevelt, and Cheney acts as if he's still under the constraints of 1973 or 1974.
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Not only John, but the entire Reagan administration Justice Department, was inclined toward a broad recognition of executive power and executive privilege,
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The attorney general's repeated refrain was, 'Trust us' - we have all the necessary checks and balances within NSA and the Justice Department.
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The burden of persuasion is on the president to establish the program's legality.
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It makes it easier for Roberts, tougher to fill O'Connor's seat.
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I've talked with him for hours. His philosophy is pretty solid. I would be stunned if John ended up resembling a Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in his approach to constitutional interpretation.
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It seems to me he is conceding that there are other NSA surveillance programs ongoing that the president hasn't told anyone about.
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They should be embracing those memos. They are squandering the opportunity to move public perception.
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You can't have two ballots that are identical ... and have (them) counted in one way in one county and another way in another county,
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There's nothing to suggest that in 60 years, she's ever thought or written a word about the U.S. Constitution. This is an opportunity squandered.