Alito and presidential power

The opinion is more than 50 years old, and it is not even binding precedent. But just minutes into the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., it took center stage and seemed to lay the groundwork for the questions he will face concerning his views on the limits of presidential power.

as well it should...

The 1952 opinion, a concurrence by Justice Robert H. Jackson, rejected President Harry S. Truman's assertion that he had the constitutional power to seize the nation's steel mills to aid the war effort in Korea.

imho, alito's views on presidential power are the single most important elements to be ascertained in his confirmation hearings... given alito's support for virtually unchecked executive power and, in particular, for the most troubling of all, "interpretive bill signing," alito might just qualify as the most potentially dangerous appointment bush has yet proposed... see here, here and here...

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