Can US Democracy Survive the Bush-Alito “Unitary Executive” Doctrine?
Can US Democracy Survive the Bush-Alito “Unitary Executive” Doctrine? Friday January 20, 2006#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)”Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. —————————— “When President Bush signed the new law, sponsored by Senator McCain, restricting the use of torture when interrogating detainees, he also issued a Presidential signing statement. That statement asserted that his power as Commander-in-Chief gives him the authority to bypass the very law he had just signed. This news came fast on the heels of Bush’s shocking admission that, since 2002, he has repeatedly authorized the National Security Agency to conduct electronic surveillance without a warrant, in flagrant violation of applicable federal law. And before that, Bush declared he had the unilateral authority to ignore the Ge
