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Supreme Court Nominee Could Coronate Obama

By on June 23, 2010 in Judiciary 1

Writes Bruce Fein:

…If confirmed by the United States Senate, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan will crown President Obama with “imperial” constitutional powers. Congress and Federal Courts will wither as checks against his presidential usurpations or abuses whenever war or other national security claims are bugled over Iran, North Korea, Yemen, international terrorism, economic adversity, or otherwise. In these matters, Kagan will prove the flip side of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, whose vote and voice have, for decades, arrested executive branch lawlessness or encroachments on the co-equal branches of government. Stevens’ vote was decisive in a pair of recent cases invalidating both military commissions for the trial of alleged war crimes and the suspension of the Great Writ of habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

…Kagan is a creature of the executive branch.

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Down With the Presidency!

By on February 15, 2010 in Big Government, Constitution 2

A “president’s day” message from Thomas R. Eddlem

The presidency itself needs to be knocked down from its perch. The only thing that will save the American republic is a renewed focus upon the Congress and cutting down the presidency to size. The founding fathers designed the legislature – Congress – to be the dominant branch of a very small federal government.

That pretty-much says it.  Whether it’s Dick Cheney saying he thinks that Obama “should declare war on Iran” (under the constitution only Congress declares war), or Barack Obama doing, well, just about everything he does – the executive has aggrandize itself with such powers that old King George himself would have been jealous.

What would Jefferson, Madison, Paine, and Adams have done?

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