President-elect Barack Obama is certain to dial back some of President Bush’s views of executive power, including the use of executive privilege to prevent White House aides from complying with congressional subpoenas, a group of scholars said at a Washington conference last week.
The conference, organized by Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., brought together leading political scientists for one of the first wide-ranging assessments of Bush’s nearly eight years in office.
One consensus was that Bush repeatedly set shaky legal precedents by invoking powers that are implied, but not explicitly spelled out, in Article 2 of the Constitution.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Obama Will Bring Different Approach
CQ Politics has a very good article today:
