Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein
Bruce Fein is an American lawyer who specializes in constitutional and international law. Fein has written numerous articles on constitutional issues for The Washington Times, Slate.com, The New York Times, and Legal Times, and is active on civil liberties issues. He has worked for the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation, both conservative think tanks, as an analyst and commentator...
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You can't have two ballots that are identical ... and have (them) counted in one way in one county and another way in another county,
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The burden of persuasion is on the president to establish the program's legality.
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They should be embracing those memos. They are squandering the opportunity to move public perception.
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I think the administration is misreading the Senate and the public, because you end up losing more if your credibility is strained and people think you're playing them for dupes.
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He will not be blunderbuss and say the president has carte blanche, ... On the other hand, he is not going to ignore national security. He will pay deference, but not blind deference.
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Here, insofar as there is discrepancy, it is not like the others that are politically neutral, ... Here, it is patently likely to favor one candidate or another.
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You wouldn't need a warrant to do the initial interception, but afterwards, once you're targeting the American citizen, then you need that warrant.
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The most important thing to me, in terms of thinking about the issue of impeachment, is to recognize that the Constitution does place a value on continuity. We don't want to have a situation where you make a single error, and you're exposed to an impeachment proceeding.
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Not only John, but the entire Reagan administration Justice Department, was inclined toward a broad recognition of executive power and executive privilege,
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It makes it easier for Roberts, tougher to fill O'Connor's seat.
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There's nothing to suggest that in 60 years, she's ever thought or written a word about the U.S. Constitution. This is an opportunity squandered.
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Katherine Harris is going to live and die on (President Bush's) coattails. She is not someone who has political legs. She is more tied to the president than the ordinary member of the House.
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There is no pattern of demonstration that justices appointed by the president then try to defend the president's constitutional prerogatives.
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...[O]ur Founding Fathers enshrined a constitutional separation of powers for the ages undeluded by the fantasy that angels would win elections.