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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Nothing in Al Gonzales? public statements, legislative proposals or anything else suggests that this is an individual who operates outside of the political gyroscope of President Bush.
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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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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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The burden of persuasion is on the president to establish the program's legality.
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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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The problem and the danger of the Bush administration is that they know no limits. It's a total lack of understanding of separation of power and checks and balances.
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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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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.
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The tipping point in Washington is when you go from being a subject of caricature to the subject of laughter. She's in danger of becoming the subject of laughter.
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It creates an aura for an ordinary person where maybe they will think twice about the privacy of their Internet searches.
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What you find is that the U.S. Supreme Court very seldom if ever marches very far from the conventional thinking of contemporary society. They pay attention and are infected by mainstream thinking of what's moral and what's right and what's just.
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Here, insofar as there is discrepancy, it is not like the others that are politically neutral, ... Here, it is patently likely to favor one candidate or another.
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