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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 1/6/2009
Yoo Who?
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by Eric Martin As has been noted in a few other locales (though none with the post-title eloquence of John Cole ), John Bolton and John Yoo have recently taken to the pages of the New York Times to preemptively warn about, of all things, executive overreach by the incoming Obama ...
shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
Shadow Government | A FOREIGN POLICY blog
— shadow.foreignpolicy.com — The Bolton/Yoo essay that Dan Drezner mentions here argues that the 2/3 requirement is a good thing,... because it advances their preferred policy agenda by: (a) restraining those wet "global governance" types from entangling commitments; and (b) in ... (more) Shadow Government | A FOREIGN POLICY blog

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balloon-juice.com - 1/5/2009
BIG BRASS BALLS
— balloon-juice.com — No one could have predicted this would happen. John Yoo and John Bolton, in the NY Times,... discuss the need to limit executive authority . Up next, David Addington and Dick Cheney write in the Washington Post on the need to reject Unitary ... (more) BIG BRASS BALLS

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reason.com - 1/5/2009
John Yoo Worries About Presidential Presumption
— reason.com — In a New York Times op-ed piece, John Bolton and John Yoo, former Bush administration officials not... known for expressing concern about executive branch power grabs, urge Congress to demand that the president respect its constitutional ... (more) John Yoo Worries About Presidential Presumption

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Amygdala — MY TREAT: a short treatise on what treaties can't do. Which is to say, am I the only blogger who remembers the Bricker Amendment? (That is, reading about it in books; I was only born in 1958.) As I wrote here (on what may become the first page here), lazily cribbing Wikipedia, because I happen to have read lots and lots of 20th century American history over the years: Oh, goody, we get to talk about the Bricker Amendment. So far as I know, this has been a talking point of the maniac rightwing ...

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