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REINING IN THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY
 
Lessons and Recommendations Relating tothe Presidency of George W. Bush
 House Committee on the Judiciary Majority Staff Final Report to Chairman John Conyers, Jr.March 2009
 
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Reining in the Imperial Presidency:Lessons and Recommendations Relating tothe Presidency of George W. Bush
Table of Contents
Foreword
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Executive Summary
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Preface: Deconstructing the Imperial Presidency
................................24I.The September 25, 2001 War Powers Memorandum....................27II.Critique of John Yoo’s Flawed Theory of Presidential Supremacy..........33III.The Need for a Judiciary Committee Staff Report.......................40
Section 1 – Politicization of the Department of Justice
............................41I.Politicization of the Prosecution Function.............................43A.Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys and other Department Personnel.43B.Selective Prosecution.......................................50II.Politicization of the Civil Rights Division.............................55A.Factual Background........................................55B.Committee Actions........................................58III.Findings.......................................................66Politicization of the Prosecution Function.......................66Politicization of the Civil Rights Division and Voting RightsEnforcement........................................72
Section 2 – Assault on Individual Liberty:Detention, Enhanced Interrogation, Ghosting and Black Sites, ExtraordinaryRendition, Warrantless Domestic Surveillance, and National Security and ExigentLetters
..............................................................75I.Detention......................................................77A.Factual Background........................................77November 2001 Decision to Try Detainees, Including U.S. Citizens, inMilitary Commissions................................78December 2001 Decision to Hold Detainees at Guantanamo........81The Administration’s Public Defense of Its Guantanamo Policies....82B.The Bush Administration’s Detention Policies in the Courts........85The President’s Power to Detain an American Citizen Captured in
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