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Feingold And The Constitution
TalkLeft — Adam Cohen writes: Before the election, Senator Russ] Feingold argued that whoever won should make a priority of rolling back Bush administration policies that eroded constitutional rights and disrupted the careful system of checks and balances. Now that Mr. Obama — a onetime constitutional law professor who made this issue a cause early in the campaign — has won the election, there is both reason for optimism and increased pressure on the president-elect to keep his promises. . . . Many reforms could be implemented directly by the next president. Mr. Obama could renounce Mr. Bush’s extreme views of executive power, including the ...

Wobbling into the future
The Sideshow — ... Feingold for the Constitution: "Before the election, Mr. Feingold argued that whoever won should make a priority of rolling back Bush administration policies that eroded constitutional rights and disrupted the careful system of checks and balances. Now that Mr. Obama - a onetime constitutional law professor who made this issue a cause early in the campaign - has won the election, there is both reason for optimism and increased pressure on the president-elect to keep his promises. Mr. Feingold has been compiling a list of areas for the next president to focus on, which he ...