{"id":6613,"date":"2006-02-14T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2006-02-14T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T15:48:52","slug":"maybe-the-white-house-shouldnt-have-praised-the-aba-quite-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-the-white-house-shouldnt-have-praised-the-aba-quite-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe the White House shouldn&#8217;t have praised the ABA quite so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By one count, the White House has praised the judgment of the American Bar Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=%22American+Bar+Association%22+%22gold+standard%22+site%3Awhitehouse.gov&#038;btnG=Search\">43 times<\/a> in recent years, frequently reminding reporters and the public that the ABA&#8217;s ratings are the professional &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/05\/20030509-4.html\">gold standard<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the White House loves the ABA when the lawyers approve of the president&#8217;s judicial nominees. The Bush gang is probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-02-13-aba-spying_x.htm\">far less fond of the group today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Bar Association denounced President Bush&#8217;s warrantless domestic surveillance program Monday, accusing him of exceeding his powers under the Constitution. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s largest organization of lawyers adopted a policy opposing any future government use of electronic surveillance in the United States for foreign intelligence purposes without first obtaining warrants from a special court set up under the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.<\/p>\n<p>The 400,000-member ABA said that if the president believes the FISA is inadequate to protect Americans, he should to ask Congress to amend the act.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the White House shouldn&#8217;t have praised the ABA quite so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By one count, the White House has praised the judgment of the American Bar Association 43 times in recent years, frequently reminding reporters and the public that the ABA&#8217;s ratings are the professional &#8220;gold standard.&#8221; Of course, the White House loves the ABA when the lawyers approve of the president&#8217;s judicial nominees. The Bush gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}