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OfficialWire
November 21, 2008
[Italics mine.] We may believe that concerns about presidential lawbreaking are naïve. That all presidents commit crimes. We may pretend that
George W. Bush ...
KCAU
November 19, 2008
OpEdNews
November 18, 2008
NYU Local
November 18, 2008
These will be two of the many Bush
executive orders and
signing statements he will move swiftly to erase. Bush's extreme expansion of executive power has ...
The Tennessean
November 17, 2008
Presidential vetoes and/or signing statements, Senate filibusters, etc., will not continue to reflect the wishes of a decided minority at the expense of the ...
Dubuque Telegraph Herald
November 17, 2008
... and declaring his intention not to continue using
presidential signing statements that reject parts of bills he signs into law, as
President Bush has. ...
CounterPunch
November 17, 2008
The military order and the secret memos -- and the "signing statements" that the President attached to a record number of laws passed by Congress, ...
Worcester Telegram
November 16, 2008
Dailyrecord.com
November 16, 2008
Republicans' use of presidential signing statements -- essentially caveats denying the right of the laws to limit presidential action -- were in ...
Huffington Post
November 14, 2008
Mr. Obama also could declare his intention not to use presidential signing statements as Mr. Bush did in record numbers to reject parts of bills signed into ...
New York Times
November 14, 2008
Mr. Obama also could declare his intention not to use presidential signing statements as Mr. Bush did in record numbers to reject parts of bills signed into ...
Indianapolis Star
November 14, 2008
The president claiming that he has the power to seize even American citizens off the streets, and imprison them indefinitely. The "signing statements" that ...
MWC News
November 13, 2008
Bush has also repeatedly signed bills into law with caveats (signing statements) that he refused to enforce the parts that limited his power. ...
Raw Story
November 13, 2008
Congress ... is going to be dealing with literally hundreds of
executive orders and regulations and also hundreds of
signing statements by this president. ...
The Nation.
November 13, 2008
Officially reject all memos,
signing statements and
executive orders that justify the use of
torture. End the use in court of any evidence obtained through ...
CounterPunch
November 13, 2008
To handle this immense responsibility as President, he needs to bring together a volunteer task force of very knowledgeable persons plus wise, retired civil ...
Independent Florida Alligator
November 13, 2008
MWC News
November 13, 2008
Warrantless searches.
signing statements. Spying on
Americans. The power to ignore constitutional and statutory constraints on presidential power. ...
American Chronicle
November 13, 2008
Obama will overturn many of the signing statements from Bush and will end his negative role as America´s "Bully in Chief". ...
OpEdNews
November 12, 2008
The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total ...
Denver Post
November 12, 2008
The president claiming that he has the power to seize even American citizens off the streets, and imprison them indefinitely. The "signing statements" that ...
Los Angeles Times
November 12, 2008
I'm heartened by the reports that Obama doesn't quite like it either and wants to erase some of
President Bush's
signing statements that collected more ...
OpEdNews
November 12, 2008
Giving away power is not something presidents do readily, and whether or not Obama honors his pledge, a pledge he literally signed in the form of Naomi ...
Media Monitors Network
November 12, 2008
In this, he is reminiscent of our most recent Democratic president,
Bill Clinton. Obama is not a consistent progressive, not a radical, he's not about to ...
Valley Advocate
November 12, 2008
George Bush is not gone; he's busy with his
executive orders and
signing statements, sending us careening even farther rightward before Obama inherits his ...
Scoop.co.nz
November 11, 2008
Absent repudiation by a future president, this and other authorities that
President Bush has asserted in
signing statements constitute a foundation for ...
Beliefnet.com
November 11, 2008
Many have noted the proliferating legislation -- from the
Military Commissions Act of 2007 to Bush's signing statement refusing Congress' limitations on ...
Washington Post
November 11, 2008
No adjusting, no back-pedalling, no "signing statement," no reflections,no re-considerations, nothing but what he has stated. and that I heard and saw for ...
Braintree Forum
November 10, 2008
I won't be writing about those 800
signing statements President Bush wrote to subvert his constitutional duty to enforce those bills he signed into law, ...
OpEdNews
November 9, 2008
By Gene Cappa OUR President Elect
Barack Obama, with an overwhelming victory and mandate from the
American people to get things done combined with a strong ...
The Moderate Voice
November 9, 2008
By JAZZ SHAW, Assistant Editor New presidents promise or hint at many things which they can't personally deliver without the support of Congress, ...
Real News Network
November 9, 2008
But my concern is that if we have eight years of a president blatantly violating the law, rewriting laws with signing statements, and then the only change ...
The Nation.
November 7, 2008
Officially reject all memos,
signing statements and
executive orders that justify the use of
torture. Establish an independent commission of inquiry into ...
Pasadena Weekly
November 6, 2008
Today, this soon-to-be-ex-president - this "worst president of all time," as he's being called by some - is such a political and personal pariah that even ...
OpEdNews
November 6, 2008
This means ending
signing statements and prosecuting any violations of law by previous administrations. 4) Restoring the
Constitution. ...
OpEdNews
November 6, 2008
No more
executive orders. No more
signing statements. What the legislature passes, the President must abide by. Our
Constitution must be restored. ...
Huffington Post
November 5, 2008
When Obama took to the victory dais, that's the quote that came to mind, though it's not at all what President-elect Obama said or implied. ...
Crain's New York Business
November 5, 2008
It's been a long time since I have looked forward so eagerly to seeing the back of a president. There's not much for me to celebrate, and some big causes of ...
Janesville Gazette
November 5, 2008
A public review of potential abuses of the presidential pardon process. -- Reform of the use of presidential signing statements. ...
Stars and Stripes
November 5, 2008
That's not something a lot of presidents would do." Walcott said he doesn't see much Bush can do in his last days as president to have a major impact on his ...
