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Bruce Fein was Associate Deputy Attorney General and General Counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan. He is author of American Empire: Before the Fall, and Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy. He is currently a resident scholar for the Turkish Coalition of America and is co-council for the Turkish American Legal Defense Fund, both of which are 501(c)3 organizations.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 2, 2011 McCain Dethrones the Rule of Law
Senator John McCain (R. Ariz.) bugled last week, "No president has ever recognized the constitutionality of the War Powers Act, and neither do I. So I don't feel bound by any [60 day] deadline" to obtain congressional authorization to continue hostilities against Libya ordained by the Act.