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Kevin R. McNamara's avatar

How long? Well the It Can't Happen Here crowd (Nichols at The Atlantic, Edsall at the Times) have both said that, well, mayyyybe it could. They're being diplomatic in the old saw about when a diplomat says yes he means maybe, when he says maybe he means no ...

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Kevin R. McNamara's avatar

a bit more substantively, while the "unitary executive theory" is older than the Shrub administration, that's when it first burst out by name into common parlance and we had the spectacle of signing statements.

It's quaint, now, to see John Yoo running around saying, I wasn't that batshit crazy. You were, John, your boss wasn't.

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Keith Parsons's avatar

Yoo enjoys a comfortable endowed professorship at Berkeley, of all places. Would they want Torquemada on the faculty?

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Kevin R. McNamara's avatar

I forget who was dean at the time, but I do remember the protests. He is, or was, also at the Claremont Institute, whose Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence was founded by a disbarred lawyer. 'Nuff said about them.

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Keith Parsons's avatar

I would require that he endure five minutes of waterboarding before giving him tenure.

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