Tags: Executive Power
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Advice and Consent Is Not Optional
The bipartisan abuse of recess appointments flouts the Constitution's checks and balances.
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Federal Court Slams Obama's Use of Recess Appointment Power
The president's bad week just got worse.
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Jay Carney Defended Investigations Into Events Like Benghazi--Back When He Was a Journalist
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Beware the IRS
The long, disturbing history of using the Internal Revenue Service to target political opponents.
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Shedding Popularity, France's Hollande Considers Rule by Decree
Because that will win over the doubters
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No More Tax Dollars for Presidential Libraries
Let America’s former presidents burnish their legacies on their own dimes.
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Obama Asks Supreme Court to Uphold His Controversial Recess Appointments
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The Minimalist President
Calvin Coolidge’s admirable do-nothing spirit
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Obama to Designate Five New National Monuments
Including one requested by Biden
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Obama's Cloak of Invisibility
How secrecy frustrates challenges to counterterrorism tactics
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Administration's Secret Surveillance Legal Guidance Sought
The opinion is secret, too
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Zimbabwe Voters Decide on Presidential Power
Well ... Strictly speaking, the people counting the votes will decide
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In Absence of Food Taster, President Declines Lunch
The republic has officially jumped the shark
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Manufacturing Terrorists
How FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents
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3 Problems Rand Paul Faces with His Post-Filibuster Fame
Republicans, Democrats, and the rest of the world
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Obama's Death Drone Dodge
The evasiveness that provoked Rand Paul's filibuster
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National Labor Relations Board Will Ask Supreme Court to Uphold Obama’s Recess Appointments
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Toward a Libertarian Foreign Policy
Rand Paul moves the ball on a long-overdue project
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Domestic Drones Are Coming Your Way
Unmanned aerial vehicles are capable of far more than just state-sanctioned killing and police surveillance.
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Did Rand Paul Change the Republican Party for the Better in 36 Hours?