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When the president of the united states is tried, the chief justice shall preside. when, not if. when. the founders were careful about each word. when they came to that sentence, they could have written "if the president of the united states is tried, the chief justice shall preside." but no. because they believed it was inevitable, absolutely inevitable. they wrote "when the president of the united states is tried." the constitution grants the congress what the founders believed were most of the government's most important powers. and, yes, the president could nominate a supreme court justice...

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This is a especially true after a decade that put more and more war making power in the hands of the president and more and more burdens on the shoulders of our troops, while side lining the people's representatives from the critical decisions about when we use force. now, i know that after the terrible toll of iraq and afghanistan, the idea of any military action, no matter how limited is not going to be popular. after all, i have spent 4 1/2 years working to end wars not to start them. our troops are out of iraq. our troops are coming home from afghanistan. and i know americans want all of u...

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