Read more Executive Branch stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/25887/executive-branch.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:12:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/60008/top-court-candidates-differ-widely-on-exec-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMost Supreme Court watchers say that Barack Obama's choice to succeed David Souter will change little, since the retiring justice was a reliable member of the court's liberal bloc. But on critical questions of presidential power, which Souter regularly sought to check, the new justice's vote could be crucial. Obama's...http://www.newser.com/story/60008/top-court-candidates-differ-widely-on-exec-power.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 25 May 2009 4:53:16 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/48399/obama-could-be-most-powerful-president-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama enters office today with a realistic shot of becoming one of the most powerful presidents in history, writes Barton Gellman in the Washington Post . Historians and officials in the outgoing and incoming administrations agree the presidency is already at or near an apex of power, and Obama’s popularity,...http://www.newser.com/story/48399/obama-could-be-most-powerful-president-ever.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 20 Jan 2009 8:42:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42503/obama-can-learn-from-cheneys-management-style.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's “template” for exercising executive authority should draw from Dick Cheney, the most influential figure in the Bush administration, Steve Clemons writes in the Huffington Post. Cheney finessed followers “beholden to him” into positions throughout the vast intelligence and national-security bureaucracies, spreading his doctrine without needing “Rumsfeld-style ‘snow flake...http://www.newser.com/story/42503/obama-can-learn-from-cheneys-management-style.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 12 Nov 2008 16:51:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/29237/separation-of-powers-leave-prezs-blackberry-out-of-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 44th president will almost certainly kick off his term by quitting email cold turkey, Jamie Sneider writes in the Weekly Standard . With executive-branch communication subject to public-disclosure law, President Bush hasn't send a single message, the former White House aide says—a coping mechanism that "fails to strike the...http://www.newser.com/story/29237/separation-of-powers-leave-prezs-blackberry-out-of-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Jun 2008 16:28:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21229/house-sues-bush-aides-over-subpoenas.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLawmakers sued two top Bush aides today to make them testify about the sacking of federal prosecutors in 2006. The House Judiciary Committee suit seeks to enforce subpoenas against White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former Bush counsel Harriet Miers, who have refused to testify or supply subpoenaed...http://www.newser.com/story/21229/house-sues-bush-aides-over-subpoenas.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:00 CDT