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Hoover Daily Report by topic: Constitution

March 19, 2010 | Washington Times

Hard questions for Holder

It's been a rough few months for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., and he should face more tough questioning when he reports for the Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday. . . .

March 17, 2010 | Fox News

Unconstitutional Health Care Solution?

Law professor breaks down the legality of Dems pushing through reform without a vote. . . .

March 17, 2010 | Fox News

Critics Challenge Legitimacy of Plan to Avoid Direct Vote on Health Care

From Maine to Hawaii, Americans send people to Washington, D.C., to be their representatives -- to cast votes that represent the will of the people who elected them to do the job. . . .

March 16, 2010 | U.S. News & World Report

House Democrats’ Healthcare Reform Plans Are Unconstitutional

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies, in an effort to be clever, have overstepped their constitutional bounds. . . .

March 15, 2010 | McClatchy Newspapers

House plan to pass health care raises constitutional questions

As the battle over health care legislation built Monday toward a weekend crescendo, congressional Democrats considered trying to pass the controversial Senate version without voting for it, a tactic that Republicans and independent analysts warned could be politically treacherous and perhaps unconstitutional. . . .

March 16, 2010 | Politico

‘Slaughter Solution’ could face legal challenge

The so-called “Slaughter solution” for enacting health care reform without a conventional House vote on an identically worded Senate bill would be vulnerable to credible constitutional challenge, experts say. . . .

March 16, 2010 | Forbes

Let's Not Kill All The Lawyers

Last week's large dust-up up over Lynne Cheney's misguided attack on the al-Qaida 9 seems to have finally subsided. . . .

March 13, 2010 | Student Life (Pomona College) (CA)

PSU Debate Covers Human Rights and Rules of War

Human Rights attorney Scott Horton debated Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Peter Berkowitz on human rights and the rules of warfare in a debate organized by the Pomona Student Union on Mar. 4 at 7 p.m. in Edmunds Ballroom. . . .

March 15, 2010 | Wall Street Journal

The House Health-Care Vote and the Constitution

Democratic congressional leaders have floated a plan to enact health-care reform by a procedure dubbed "the Slaughter solution." . . .

March 13, 2010 | National Journal

Time To Depolarize Terror Policy

Few Republicans disagreed with the need to close Guantanamo until the issue became a stick with which to beat Obama. . . .