Word: posner
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...Among those who have weighed in on the domestic eavesdropping controversy are Harvard’s Ames Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann and Appellate Court Judge Richard A. Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago. The debate between the two well-known scholars, which took place on the pages of a left-of-center magazine, The New Republic, incorporated questions of both legality and proper policy, with Posner concerned more with the program’s merits and Heymann with its conformity to the FISA statute...
...While most of the controversy has centered on the legality of domestic eavesdropping, Posner and Heymann also focused their debate on the program’s merits and how its merits relate to its legality...
...debate began when Posner, an HLS alum, critiqued the letter authored by the 12 professors as overly reliant on legalistic arguments...
...requires anyone who has a federal appointment to resign, so it’s assumed that Hastert would not give up his seat in Congress and his speakership to be a temporary president until, you know, the real president took office,” Posner told Rose, according to a transcript of the show...
...have a situation, Larry Summers becomes president on January 21, and then maybe a few weeks later, Congress finally decides who is the president,” Posner, a 1962 graduate of Harvard Law School, told Rose...