Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon about The impact of Obama's latest excellent DOJ appointments. David Baron and Marty Lederman join the Office of Legal Council.
"It is the DOJ generally, and the OLC specifically, that has a real ability to impose legal constraints on what a President can do, to decree that what a President wants to do is contrary to a valid statute or the Constitution. Much of the Bush illegality was accomplished by having DOJ lawyers do the opposite: by decreeing that anything the President wished to do was legal. It is unlikely in the extreme that this group of new appointees would do that."
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