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Even if you trust the Obama administration implicitly, I do not believe you can trust every subsequent administration not to abuse the powers given them, or ind
by ameister14 14y ago
Even if you trust the Obama administration implicitly, I do not believe you can trust every subsequent administration not to abuse the powers given them, or indeed in this case simply use them.
By the way, he's actually drafting such a bill, he said so an hour or so ago in his filibuster.
- anigbrowl 14y agoThen he should introduce the bill instead of filibustering an appointment. I don't trust every future administration not to abuse its powers, but likewise I recognize that the incumbent administration can't bind its successors. Only Congress or the Judicial Branch can do that, and so far neither have seen fit to restrain the Executive Branch on this issue.