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More recently, since 9/11, the Bush administration has attempted to stiff-arm the Posse Comitatus law as part of the war on terror. Barely a month after the September 11 terror attacks, on Oct. 23, 2001, then Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo co-wrote a memo regarding "Authority for the Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States." Jay Bybee, then chief of the Office of Legal Counsel, acknowledged in a later memo that the act generally prohibits use of the military for law enforcement purposes unless there's a constitutional or statutory reason...
...first of his three terms as state comptroller; became attorney general...
...move as brazen as it was unexpected, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich - accused of trying to swap President Elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat for a high-paying Administration job or other favors - named former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as Obama's replacement. As a former State Comptroller, he's the first African American to win an Illinois executive office; he has also lost five races for higher office...
...press conference, Blagojevich brought more trouble, including the issue of race, to an already florid scandal. He announced that he was appointing a successor, former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, to Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat - a move that will continue to roil the political waters in Illinois and ensure a continuing distraction for the President-elect. By naming Burris, the governor blatantly ignored warnings by Senate majority leader Harry Reid that any Blagojevich appointee would not be seated by the Senate. The governor also belied the assessment of his own defense attorney, who earlier said that Blagojevich...
...speed by the Illinois senate and removed from office." Meanwhile, the office of Illinois secretary of state Jesse White reiterated that White will not certify any appointment by Blagojevich and that the seat will probably remain in limbo. White said in a statement, "Although I have respect for former Attorney General Roland Burris, because of the current cloud of controversy surrounding the governor, I cannot accept the document [appointing him to the Senate...