The Boston Globe has reported that the American Bar Association is putting together a bi-partisan all-star legal panel "to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office."
The American Bar Association, with over 400,000 members, is the most prestigious legal association in America.
The panel includes Mickey Edwards, a former Oklahoma representative from 1977 to 1993, and Bruce Fein, a Justice Department official under President Reagan; William Sessions, a retired federal judge who was the director of the FBI under both Reagan and President George H.W. Bush; Patricia Wald, a retired chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, appointed by President Carter; Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and a former official in the Reagan and Clinton administrations; Kathleen Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School; Charles Ogletree, a Harvard law professor; and Stephen Saltzburg , a professor at George Washington University Law School; Mark Agrast, a former legislative counsel for Representative William D. Delahunt, Democrat of Quincy, and Thomas Susman, who worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel under both Presidents Johnson and Nixon, and was later counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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