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Bush-Cheney legal legacy, in broad strokes

By Mark Obbie

Warren Richey provides the second of three parts of a Christian Science Monitor series on "The Bush Legacy," this time focusing on the president's war-on-terror legal policies, particularly his -- or, rather, Vice President Cheney's -- efforts to enhance presidential power (the series' first part, yesterday, was a more general look at history's likely judgment, while tomorrow's looks at foreign policy). Richey plays it straight down the middle, using scholars from various camps to bat the arguments back and forth. He puts the past eight years in some historical context. And he gives the issues an interesting forward spin, pondering through his sources what kind of lasting precedents the Bush administration might have set. Experts will find the story oversimplified and basic, but for the general public it's an excellent big-picture, broad-brush summary providing perspective on the many flareups in courts and Congress over the president's legal powers. (Via How Appealing)

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).