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Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?
Congress Announces First Investigation Bush Administration After Downing Street Thu Jan 25, 2007 21:48 Congress Announces First Investigation into the Crimes of the Bush Administration Submitted by... ...
Executive Order Expands Presidential Power Over Agencies
The White House has quietly amended a key executive order to tighten the president's grip on federal agencies that enforce health, safety and environmental protections. The new order, issued last Thursday,... ...
Bush Administration "Aggressively" Expanding Domestic Spying
The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive... ...
Murtha's Plan to Stop Bush
By Ari Berman Murtha announced his intention to use the power of the purse to try and close US prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, eliminate the signing statements President Bush uses to secretly... ...
Four ways to stop the war
Slate by Emily Bazelon 01/10/07 Congres s is sticking to gestures in expressing its dissatisfaction with the Iraq War. The new Democratic leadership isn't trying to stop President Bush's planned troop... ...
Bush's dusty veto pen may soon get busy
USA Today 01/07/07 President Bush has vetoed just one bill in nearly six years in office. That soon may change. As newly empowered Democrats forge ahead with their own agenda, some items may make it... ...
Security Firms Granted Full Police Power
Private firms with outright police powers have been proliferating in some places - and trying to expand their terrain. The trend is triggering debate over whether the privatization of public safety is... ...
Humankind must reintegrate with the rest of the living Earth or face dire consequences
The Toronto Star December 24, 2006 http://www.thestar.com/o pinion/article/164832 The risks of too much city in a crowded world We are heading for a world of 100-storey... ...
Global Warming Goes to Court
The New York Times writes: "The Bush administration has been on a six-year campaign to expand its powers, often beyond what the Constitution allows. So it is odd to hear it claim that it lacks the power... ...
Cheney 's Quest to Expand Presidential Powers
Cheney bypassed acts of Congress as defense secretary in the first Bush administration. And his office has been the driving force behind the current administration's hoarding of secrets, its efforts to... ...