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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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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The government has the obligation to come forth and make its own case.
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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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She's an inkblot -- the last person who is going to look at Roe v. Wade and say, 'the reasoning is flawed,' and tell us why, ... She'll just follow the path of every justice in the last 25 years who comes to the bench without a developed philosophy and ends up in the liberal camp. People whose intellect is as thin and dubious as hers will be too intellectually timid to challenge orthodoxy.
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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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History teaches that nations do not learn from history.
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Mission creep is not unique to Congress. It is endemic to all arms of the federal government....
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...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.
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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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plant the seeds of racial separateness and of hatred in the law.
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I think the administration is misreading the Senate and the public, because you end up losing more if your credibility is strained and people think you're playing them for dupes.
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Our forefathers understood that 'trust me' was not good enough for protecting civil liberties.
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giants who change the philosophy of law and have spoken about changing ideas.
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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.