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Politics : Have you read your constitution today?

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To: epicure who started this subject8/4/2003 2:38:31 AM
From: Thomas M.Read Replies (1) of 403
 
Fierce Watchdog of the Constitution

by Nat Hentoff

Judge Andrew Napolitano: "There is no basis in law or history" for the president's action.

On which broadcast or cable television channel was this said by a regular commentator?

"The attorney general needs to follow the Constitution, whether the Congress authorizes him to or not. And then we will have the rule of law, and civil liberties upheld, and security as well. . . . The bottom line is the government needs to preserve civil liberty. That's why we have this country."

The cable channel is Fox Television News, much lambasted by liberals, most of whom don't watch it. On that network, there is indeed an array of bristling conservative commentators. But also featured in the evenings on Brit Hume's Special Report are two of the most incisively knowledgeable Washington reporters in any medium—Jim Angle and Carl Cameron.

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