As the Sept. 11 attacks have receded, political and diplomatic opposition to the administration's use of wartime powers has grown.
Left unchecked, the president could extend the reach of his wartime powers anywhere, ad infinitum.
Repeals the provision of federal law that puts a time limit on the government's wartime powers to conduct warrantless wiretapping and physical searches against Americans.
Bush's claim that other presidents asserted that wartime powers supersede an act of Congress, "is either intentionally misleading or downright false," Cole said.
-Perhaps no other president defined presidential wartime powers like Abraham Lincoln did.
Currency and Bank Notes Act gives wartime powers of banknote issue to HM Treasury.
Unfortunately for the reader, Mr. Perret's discussion of broader issues, like presidential wartime powers, is scattered and unpersuasive.
What this means in a practical sense is that he and his successors would be vested with perhaps greater wartime powers than any previous president.
Anyway, tomorrow I want you to go over to the Library of Congress and see what you can find on the President's wartime powers.
My ruling, under wartime powers.