Our permanent constitutional crisis

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Our permanent constitutional crisis under the lawless presidency of George W. Bush.

Via Andrew Sullivan, the Globe reports another presidential ‘signing statement.’ In this one the president claims that the oversight provisions in the recently passed Patriot Act are not in fact binding.

There’s really no overstating the importance of the president’s disrespect for and serial violations of the law he has sworn twice to uphold.

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