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George Will's Legal Extremism
Obsidian Wings — ... Noted climatologist George Will shifted gears to constitutional law yesterday, arguing that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) (i.e., the bailout) is unconstitutional. The specific claim is that it violates the ...

George Will's Legal Extremism
Political Animal — GEORGE WILL'S LEGAL EXTREMISM.... Noted climatologist George Will shifted gears to constitutional law yesterday, arguing that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) (i.e., the bailout) is unconstitutional. The specific claim is that it violates the ...

Is the Bailout Constitutional?
Hit & Run — George Will votes no. It is high time Americans heard an argument that might turn a vague national uneasiness into a vivid awareness of something going very wrong. The argument is that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA) is unconstitutional. By enacting it, Congress did not in any meaningful sense make a law. Rather, it made executive branch officials into legislators. [...] FreedomWorks, a Washington-based libertarian advocacy organization, argues that EESA violates "the nondelegation doctrine." Although the text does ...

Memewatch: it’s all unconstitutional!
Balloon Juice — The new Republican line against Obama is that everything he’s doing to prop up the economy is unconstitutional. Michelle Bachmann last week: Sir, in the Constitution? What in the Constitution could you point to to give authority to the Treasury extraordinary actions that they take? George Will today: It is high time Americans heard an argument that might turn a vague national uneasiness into a vivid awareness of something going very wrong. The argument is that the Emergency Economic ...

Video: Cavuto goes nuclear on Democrat for trying to regulate “excessive” pay
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... but don’t look for any guidance there on what is and isn’t “excessive.” In fact, your time’s better spent reading George Will’s op-ed on whether TARP is unconstitutional insofar as it represents a grant of discretion from Congress to the President so sweeping and ill-defined as to violate separation of powers. Arguably, this bill does too: The Supreme Court has said: “That Congress cannot delegate legislative power to the president is a principle universally recognized as vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution.” And ...

Il Duce, Redux?
The American Spectator — ... a bill to give the Treasury Secretary the power to set all salary levels for all employees of any companies in which the government has a capital stake. As George Will has written , Congress has delegated so much economic authority to the Treasury, the Fed, and the president that the Constitution itself has almost certainly been shredded in the panic. Meanwhile, in Congress's rush to pass a ...