Barron's: Impeachment Deserves Discussion
by TChris
TalkLeft now joins the chorus of bloggers (many of them mentioned here) calling attention to this editorial in the conservative Barronâs. Think of it as a Christmas present:
The administration is saying the president has unlimited authority to order wiretaps in the pursuit of foreign terrorists, and that the Congress has no power to overrule him. ⦠[Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales last week declined to declassify relevant legal reviews made by the Department of Justice.
Perhaps they were researched in a Star Chamber? Putting the president above the Congress is an invitation to tyranny. The president has no powers except those specified in the Constitution and those enacted by law. â¦
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