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Obama to reverse Bush executive orders
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... orders that the pres elect is considering –not only ones the President-elect will sign after January 20, but also ones we will want to repeal." Obama aides didn't respond to requests for more detail, but the president-elect campaigned against what he called Bush’s abuse of executive authority. "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president, I actually respect the Constitution," Obama told an audience at a campaign fundraiser in 2007. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17365.html

Overturning Dubya: Obama to reverse Bush national security policies
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings Following up on my Bush-Obama-Gitmo post from last night, it looks like Obama will indeed reverse many of Bush's more egregious moves: President-elect Barack Obama is expected to move swiftly to reverse executive orders regarding torture of terror suspects, the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and other controversial security policies, sources close to his transition said, in dramatic gestures aimed at ...

Stand In Line
Neptunus Lex — ... The President-elect appears to have rowed back from his earlier equivocation on the wisdom closing Guantanamo, as well as reversing various other policies of his predecessor that have served to aggregate war fighting power under the commander-in-chief during wartime, rather than in the 535-member deliberative body known as the US Congress (latest popularity rating 11%) where it rightly belongs. ...

The More Things Change...
Antiwar.com Original — ... . His plan for withdrawing from Iraq is not all that different from what the Bush administration has begun to implement, and the likelihood is that even after "combat" troops have been withdrawn there will still be tens of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq. Obama plans to issue an executive order early on to close the ...

On Today's Post-Inaugural Lionel Show
The Latest on Air America — ... in wishing 43 adios.  Some may have found this rude; some just don’t understand what that the legacy of Bush means to many.  It is not an understatement to note that what this man has done in eight years will take at least that amount of time to undo.  When the Obama team pored over Bush’s executive orders, especially as to torture and detention, one can only imagine what was in fact operational.  President Obama is expected to quickly abrogate a number of them.  And let’s not forget one of the most insidious bastardizations of legal reasoning, the unitary executive doctrine. ...