{"id":660,"date":"2008-05-04T11:42:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-05-04T11:42:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:42:57","slug":"i-voted-for-kodos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"I voted for Kodos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/will110600.asp\">&quot;The Case for Bush&quot;<\/a> Will complains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/02\/AR2008050203301.html\">today<\/a> about unconstitutional assertions of executive power.&nbsp; Now you tell us, his loyal readers ought to think.&nbsp; While saying a lot of things that are likely to be true&#8211;something <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200805020007\">of an issue<\/a> for him of late&#8211;he makes the following assertion about claims of executive power:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When in 1952 Truman, to forestall a strike, cited his &quot;inherent&quot; presidential powers during wartime to seize the steel mills, the Supreme Court rebuked him. In a letter here that he evidently never sent to Justice William Douglas, Truman said, <strong>&quot;I don&#39;t see how a Court made up of so-called &#39;liberals&#39; could do what that Court did to me.&quot; Attention, conservatives: Truman correctly identified a grandiose presidency with the theory and practice of liberalism.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hold on a second.&nbsp; Could it be that Truman was wrong about liberalism and the judges were right?&nbsp; Aside from that, it ought to be noted that Truman had the courtesy not to send the letter or challenge their jurisdiction. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George, &quot;The Case for Bush&quot; Will complains today about unconstitutional assertions of executive power.&nbsp; Now you tell us, his loyal readers ought to think.&nbsp; While saying a lot of things that are likely to be true&#8211;something of an issue for him of late&#8211;he makes the following assertion about claims of executive power: When in 1952 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=660\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I voted for Kodos<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[129,161],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","tag-george-will","tag-unchecked-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}