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...were even repudiated by eight moderate Republicans who sent a letter denouncing pending bills to C.W. Young, Republican Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Yet the pernicious effects of these bills will be felt very soon unless Congress and the President understand that America will not tolerate such brash disregard for our precious national resources...
...strike for petty theft. In the Supreme Court dissenting opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer noted that in most states, 25 years to life is the sentence for first-degree murder, not shoplifting. The attorney general's office points to a 1996 California Supreme Court ruling that judges and attorneys can disregard priors in three strikes cases...
...that will reinstate those standards. The details of the bill will be released tomorrow, but it has become very clear over the past 18 months that the PATRIOT Act has eroded far more constitutional privacy controls than appropriate. We have already witnessed the Bush administration’s callous disregard for individual civil liberties; in the fall, we learned of the Pentagon’s proposed plans for “Total Information Awareness,” a program that aims to gather personal electronic information including credit card and bank statements, travel plans and e-mail—without...
...disregard for ethics,” the government argues in court papers, taught Russians a lesson that was “the exact opposite from the one Harvard was paid to promote...
...constitutional framework of separated powers is under threat from Bush’s zealous pursuit of war in Iraq. It is quite fitting that an alum of the Harvard Law School should challenge the executive branch’s disregard for that legal framework. The Constitution’s framers deliberately vested the power to make war in the legislative branch to prevent the President from wielding the tyrannical power of a king. Congress has a duty to defend its prerogatives from executive abuses—but since it has lapsed in this duty, it is admirable and heartening that...