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antigop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 08:57 AM
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Robert Parry: McCain and the "unitary executive"
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051208.html

If John McCain wins the presidency – and gets to appoint one or more U.S. Supreme Court justices – America’s 220-year experiment as a democratic Republic living under the principle that “no man is above the law” may come to an end.

To put the matter differently, if a President McCain replaces one of the moderate justices with another Samuel Alito – as McCain has vowed to do – then Justice Department lawyer John Yoo’s extreme vision of an all-powerful Executive could well become the new law of the land.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:07 AM
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1. Robert Parry - right around 99% of the time
And this one is literally deadly accurate. Rec.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 09:40 AM
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2. Alito didn't even try to hide his fascist tendencies in his confirmation.
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