{"id":195198,"date":"2008-07-23T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/23\/barack-obama-fire-cass-sunstein\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T23:05:00","slug":"barack-obama-fire-cass-sunstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/23\/barack-obama-fire-cass-sunstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: Fire Cass Sunstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTD at Talkleft has the goods<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It appears that Sunstein has suggested that only the “Egregious Crimes” of Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122<\/sup> be pursued under an Obama administration.<\/p>\n

While both BTD and I agree that the standard of Jonathan Turley on Olbermann, that all<\/b> crimes by the executive are “egregious”, is excessive (Turley supported impeachment over “Monicagate”).<\/p>\n

I would further argue that pursuing all the “high crimes and misdemeanors” of the Bush administration would not be possible<\/span>, as there are simply too few lawyers in Washington, DC<\/span> to do this.<\/p>\n

That being said, there are certain crimes that must<\/span> be pursued, because otherwise it subverts the rule of law, which is already<\/span> quite weak inside the Beltway.<\/p>\n

What sort of crimes? Things like illegal wiretapping, WHICH CASS SUNSTEIN SUPPORTED<\/b>, and the military kangaroo courts of Gitmo detainees, WHICH CASS SUNSTEIN SUPPORTED<\/b> (See here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

He justifies them by supporting<\/b> the proposition that we elect a king with unlimited power every 4 years.<\/p>\n

This should be reason enough to remove him completely from the campaign, and from any<\/span> position in your future administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BTD at Talkleft has the goods: It appears that Sunstein has suggested that only the “Egregious Crimes” of Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 be pursued under an Obama administration. While both BTD and I agree that the standard of Jonathan Turley on Olbermann, that all crimes by the executive are “egregious”, is excessive (Turley supported …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}