Wiretap ruling affirms that presidents aren't monarchs

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Author(s)	USA Today editorial board
Source	USA Today
Date	8/18/2006
URL	http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060818/edit18.art.htm
Quote	"Bush has done these things by simply asserting that the powers of the presidency enumerated in Article II of the Constitution - particularly the clause making him the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy" - are much more sweeping than previously imagined. In short, he has acted like a king. Fortunately, the courts have begun to rein in his royal ambitions."

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This item argues for the position Judge Taylor was right to rule program unconstitutional on the topic NSA warrantless surveillance controversy.