When Ed Meese Speaks ..; .Head: ; Advocate of Judicial Restraint Stresses Its Relevance in Wartime

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There is arguably no more influential conservative in America today than Reagan administration Attorney General Edwin Meese. To paraphrase an old marketing slogan, when Ed Meese talks, people listen. Rarely has such attention been more warranted than now, as President Obama prepares to select a new Supreme Court nominee whose views on national security and the law may have enormous bearing on the prospects for our victory in this war for the free world.

After all, as Mr. Meese observed in a major policy address before an American Bar Association audience on Thursday: "In four major cases, the Supreme Court has involved itself in the conduct of this war in what has been a change in terms of the constitutional history and the traditions of the country."

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When Ed Meese Speaks ..; .Head: ; Advocate of Judicial Restraint Stresses Its Relevance in Wartime

The lack of judicial restraint, according to the nation's one- time top law enforcement officer, has been compounded further by the "lack of clarity" on the part of the executive branch with respect to key aspects of this war. Particularly egregious has ...

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