undermined the olc as explicitly as the president and eric holder did, bruce ackerman has been very upset about it and for good reason. the increase in executive power, often dramatic increase, the depression, world war i, world war ii, the cold war, there's been no emergencies that justify these things, it's just pure politics. instead of triangulating like clinton did and trying to compromise, we're just going to go ahead and do whatever he wants. and usually when the president has pushed executive powers in one specific area like the nixon administration and vietnam or other examples you come up with, but not broadly in so many different areas, in so many different parts of the law the way the obama administration has done. so that's why when i started to write this book, i sought a more academic style, and i became convinced -- i thought all this stuff was exaggerated, right-wing propaganda, and i got upset about this not just as a law professor, but as a citizen. i thought i should alert the public about it in a book with. more important, i'm not really concerned. obama's gone pretty

when he talks to her about the resolutions that i do, too, bruce ackerman suggested the department ofpendent judicial supreme executive tribunal of life tenure to send and. no one who has worked in government thinks that remotely is pragmatic. that would work. it is in terms of these things happening all the time and a lot of discussions are fluid between mott and policy. there's not a place for everything stops and we will see what the courts as next month when they get around to it. that is not how governance functions as a real-world matter. the problem is it doesn't seem to be a satisfying solution. to ackerman's credit he came up with an idea and put it out there. so the best i've been able to come up with this transparency. the check of public opinion and whether it is hey we're back to a rehydrating people, is that what we as a country are all about or whether it is this interpretation of the patriot act that i want things as laughably wrong once it is dragged into public light. or here is the dilemma and people say that is a hard choice, but that is what is necessary is a stan