Tough Talk on Impeachment
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk of impeachment with Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.

Jack L. Goldsmith
Former head of the Office of Legal Counsel under George W. Bush, Jack L. Goldsmith, discusses the Administration's expanded view of executive power.

John Dean
Watch Nixon lawyer John Dean discuss presidential secrecy with Bill Moyers on NOW with Bill Moyers, April 2, 2004.

License to Spy
Bill Moyers talks with former Congressman Mickey Edwards and ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero about revisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

FRONTLINE: Cheney's Law
Watch in the full the recent FRONTLINE program about the Bush Administration's push to expand the powers of the Executive.

Read Senator Specter's Letter to Judge Mukasey Regarding Presidential Power
Specter writes, "If you believe the President can act outside the law, how do you square that belief with your statement at the hearing that 'The President doesn't stand above the law[?]' How do you deal with the public concern that the rule of law is supreme and the President at times appears to put himself above the law?"

Mukasey Vows to Keep Politics Away From Justice Dept.
By Philip Shenon, THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 17, 2007
"President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey, pledged today to block political meddling at the Justice Department but did not make a similar promise to disown the Bush administration's most controversial antiterrorism policies."

Watch the Senate Judiciary question Attorney General Nominee, Judge Mukasey, Oct. 17, 2007

The Limits of Law
By Charles Fried, THE BOSTON GLOBE, October 23, 2007
"Bush, through a combination of bad judgment, bad advice, and bad luck, had made the case for discretion and reasonableness disreputable."

Federalism Has a Right to Life, Too
By Charles Fried, THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 23, 2005
"In their intervention in the Terri Schiavo matter, Republicans in Congress and President Bush have, in a few brief legislative clauses, embraced the kind of free-floating judicial activism, disregard for orderly procedure and contempt for the integrity of state processes that they quite rightly have denounced and sought to discipline for decades."

The Case for Surveillance
By Charles Fried, THE BOSTON GLOBE, December 30, 2005
"In the context of the post-9/11 threat, which includes sleeper cells and sleeper operatives in the United States, no other form of surveillance is likely to be feasible and effective. But this kind of surveillance may not fit into the forms for court orders because their function is to identify targets, not to conduct surveillance of targets already identified."

Patrick's 'oath'
By Charles Fried, THE BOSTON GLOBE, January 5, 2007
"I regret that the Supreme Judicial Court, in its closely divided 2003 decision in the Goodridge case, proclaimed that the state Constitution requires same-sex marriage."

An op-ed by Professor Charles Fried discusses legal representation in America, WALL STREET JOURNAL, January 16, 2007
"Defense Department official Charles Stimson showed ignorance and malice in deploring the pro bono representation of Guantanamo detainees by lawyers in some of the nation's leading law firms, and in calling on their corporate clients to punish them for this work."

Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government, a panel discussion
Watch this Harvard Law School panel discuss on Professor Fried's recent book, MODERN LIBERTY AND THE LIMITS OF GOVERNMENT.


UNCHECKED AND UNBALANCED, Book Review
By Michiko Kakutani, THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 6, 2007
"As this important book, UNCHECKED AND UNBALANCED points out, the Bush White House has repeatedly sought to expand its powers, often doing so in secret, while sidelining both Congress and the judiciary. President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop without obtaining a court order on calls and e-mail messages sent from the United States to other countries."

Alan Chartock in Conversation with Fritz Schwarz
Listen to public radio's Alan Chartock talk with Fritz Schwarz about his recent book, UNCHECKED AND UNBALANCED, as well as his work on the Church Committee.

Read the Church Committee Reports
From the AARC Public Library, read the 14 reports issued by the Church Committee. From the AARC Web site: "These 14 reports are the most extensive review of intelligence activities ever made public."

Professor Schwarz testifies before the Standing Committee on the Judiciary of the Assembly of the State of New York (11/15/06)(pdf)

POWER AND THE PRESIDENCY
Bill Moyers talks with constitutional law professor Charles Fried and lawyer and author Fritz Schwarz on the growing power of the executive branch.

LESSONS FROM HISTORY
The post-Watergate Church Committee led to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The war on terror's led to FISA revisions. What's next for domestic intelligence?

THE NEED TO KNOW
Where do you draw the line on secrecy in a democracy? The new classification process and the Freedom of Information Act.

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