UNITED STATES: Bush expands presidential power
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In this article
- Presidential leadership
- Act through Congress
- Challenge traditional authority
- Bush's approach
- 'Unitary executive' theory
- Theoretical basis
- Past application
- Creative legal arguments
- Interpreting existing statutes
- The OLC role
- John Yoo
- Commander-in-chief authority
- Radical influence
- Applying presidential power
- 'Torture memoranda'
- Gunatanamo Bay
- Domestic eavesdropping
- Expedient approach
- Interpreting new legislation
- 'Signing statements'
- Circumventing Congress
- 'Black box' executive
- Circumventing the judiciary
- Growing backlash
- Republican opposition
- Specter's effort
- Hamdan vs Rumsfeld
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