Read Gene Healy's fantastic post on conservatives and Presidential power. No principles, not even bad, historically and constitutionally indefensible ones.
the arbitrary executive
With respect to the disgraceful Libby commutation, Laura of 11D provides some interesting data about how likely a petitioner not connected with the Bush administration is to get a pardon.
Thers makes a comparison.As I've mentioned before, I actually think that the narrow issue of not granting a pardon to Karla Faye Tucker (as opposed to his conduct afterward and.
Good question: Hiring for career positions in the Justice Department was being done on the basis of the political positions of the applicants. If you don't think Gonzales deserves impeachment for this, is it because you think violating law and civil service rules to politicize...
Douglas Kmiec. Answer to title question: "No. No, they can't."
Mark Graber passes along this chilling story from the eminent political scientist Walter Murphy, author of the classic Elements of Judicial Strategy and many other major works (and a bestselling.