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Controversy Grows Over Obama Signing Statements

Despite President Obama’s previous criticism of former President George W. Bush’s “signing statements” that limit the president’s responsibility to comply with a bill passed by Congress, it turns out Obama has been doing much the same thing since he took office.  Charlie Savage reported in The New York Times on Sunday that Obama has issued [...]


NYT Draws Different Conclusion Than Fox News on Sotomayor’s Enemy Combatant Comments

Whereas Fox News appears to have read Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s 2003 lecture to Indiana University law students as an approval of broad executive power in the war on terror, Charlie Savage at The New York Times today has the opposite take.
According to Savage, Sotomayor “expressed skepticism” in that lecture “about the expanding government [...]