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Such is the import of this letter, sent today by President Obama to the Speaker of the House. The letter says, in pertinent part:
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
Starting on June 15, 2014, up t...
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You'll find it here. We'll cover the two-day mini-hearing, which will commence tomorrow at 0900 down at Guantanamo.
The statement opens:
Good evening and Happy Father’s Day. I refer to Father’s Day wit...
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I explained yesterday why I believe the administration has a straightforward argument for relying on the 2002 Iraq AUMF if it chooses to use force against ISIS in Iraq. (Bobby and Wells disagree, and th...
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Jack's reading of the 2002 AUMF is more than plausible. And I wouldn't be surprised if the executive branch adopted that reading, in searching out a statutory basis for military action against ISIS.
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The march of ISIS across Iraq (and in Syria), and the Obama administration’s scramble to react to it, and the new round of drone strikes in Pakistan, and continuing and growing Islamist terrorist threats...
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I haven't watched it yet, as I was doing a different event at the time of the hearing. But thanks to the magic of CSPAN and it's belated, but very welcome propensity for embed codes . .
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The hearing on FISA reforms will get going today at 2:30 p.m, and (as always) be broadcasted live via C-SPAN. The witness line-up is below with links to written statements.
First Panel (Government):
Ja...
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I laughed when I heard former Vice-President Cheney on the Laura Ingraham show (approximately the 8:15-9:10 mark) criticizing President Obama for not notifying Congress under Section 1035 of the 2014 NDA...
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Today's ruling in Smith v. Obama grants the government's motion to dismiss, and thus bats away a Fourth Amendment-based challenge to NSA telephone metadata collection---for the reasons one would expect. ...
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The topic of net neutrality (i.e.
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The Obama Administration has backed away from its suggestions over the weekend that it failed to comply with the notice requirement in Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA on constitutional grounds.
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Earlier today I explained why the President almost certainly disregarded Section 1035 of the 2014 NDAA when he swapped the GTMO detainees for Bergdahl. The President probably disregarded another statute...