Whether these bills, or new legislation like them that would prohibit Obama from moving forward with his Bush-style tribunal show trials, are moved out of committee will be the test of whether Democrats in Congress are willing to stand up for the Constitution or are content to acquiesce, and bring their political party in alignment with the Bush-era politics of fear.
President Barack Obama is openly violating the law in order to cover up torture. Will Democratic senators like Whitehouse, Leahy and Feingold do anything about it, or will they continue to solely focus on the Bush presidency, which is conveniently finished?
Appearing on Sunday Talk Show “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah referred to the following remarks by President Barack Obama as “code words for an activist judge” in his appointment of a justice to the Supreme Court: I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with people’s hopes and [...]
Patrick Leahy’s failure to deal with Obama’s refusal to follow war crimes law looks awfully partisan to me.
In reaction to yesterday’s news that the National Security Agency under President Obama has expanded the use of spying targeted against Americans on US soil without search warrants, Feingold released the following statement.
Obama’s decision to follow the Unitary Executive legal theories of the Bush Administration makes Americans powerless to stop federal government spies from invading their privacy at whim. President Obama, like George W. Bush, is attempting to place himself in a position above the law.
In general, I’m not inclined to trust Cliff Stearns. However, yesterday Stearns asked a really good question about a particular manifestation of Barack Obama’s economic policy.
The reason for a more rapid pullout from Iraq that the American people may be most sympathetic to is economic: America needs its resources to struggle against the deepening recession.
The redistribution of wealth has already taken place, through irresponsible tax cuts for the extremely wealthy instituted under George W. Bush.
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