• Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    We have been left to wonder whether exist­ing docu­ments still green-light the viol­a­tion of Amer­ic­ans' consti­tu­tional rights and civil liber­ties, or if modern sens­ib­il­it­ies and under­stand­ings of the law have moder­ated their approach.

    This sentence is implying that the Bush era is not "modern". That things are probably different now... In the modern day with "modern sensibilities", while Roe v Wade is being overturned.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      The President has more powers than the office had under Bush. Even Bush wasn't brazen enough to claim the authority to kill US citizens without trial or oversight of any kind. That was Obama.