Read more separation of powers stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/28136/separation-of-powers.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:44:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69275/obama-skirts-accountability-with-policy-czars-hutchison.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration is using its many policy “czars” to skirt the accountability and transparency established by the founding fathers, writes Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Washington Post. The administration has an “unprecedented” 32 czar positions, and “unfortunately,” the senator from Texas writes, “virtually no one can say with certainty...http://www.newser.com/story/69275/obama-skirts-accountability-with-policy-czars-hutchison.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 13 Sep 2009 14:42:26 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63088/blame-founding-fathers-for-paralysis-on-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's narrow victory last week, when the House passed the climate change bill by just 7 votes, raises the question of why it's so tough to get change enacted even when the president is popular and his party has majorities in both houses of Congress. The problem Democrats face...http://www.newser.com/story/63088/blame-founding-fathers-for-paralysis-on-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:27:00 CDThttp://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/52520/calif-supreme-court-hears-prop-8-arguments.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCalifornia Supreme Court justices heard arguments today on lawsuits seeking to overturn the state's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage as thousands demonstrated outside the San Francisco courthouse. Gay-rights advocates are urging the court to overturn Proposition 8 on the grounds it was put before voters improperly, or at least prematurely....http://www.newser.com/story/52520/calif-supreme-court-hears-prop-8-arguments.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 05 Mar 2009 13:07:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/30415/make-lawsuits-not-war-over-opec-oil.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere’s no question OPEC’s price-fixing is illegal under American law, a former Reagan and Bush I adviser writes in the New York Times —so why not sue the oil cartel? US states are permitted to seek relief against aliens, and a joint suit by several attorneys general would point the...http://www.newser.com/story/30415/make-lawsuits-not-war-over-opec-oil.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Jun 2008 17:23:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/23039/supreme-court-stands-pat-on-fbi-raid-of-reps-office.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court declined today to hear an appeal of a ruling that the FBI violated separation-of-powers law in a 2006 raid on the office of Rep. William Jefferson, the New York Times reports. Though the raid itself was not unconstitutional, an appeals court found, the FBI went too far...http://www.newser.com/story/23039/supreme-court-stands-pat-on-fbi-raid-of-reps-office.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 31 Mar 2008 13:24:30 CDT