President Obama's decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantanamo detainees is… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency.… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The notion of law enforcement as professional, not political, began developing as an aspiration and an ethos even while, in practice, the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Stability in law - particularly constitutional law - is critically important; the Supreme Court would do well to remember that. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
