Oh, to be among the high and mighty as they stir from their alpine reaches and stretch forth their protective wings of Truth and Justice upon their little charge milling below like sheep:

“If Congress passes a law telling the people in the bureaucracy that ‘this is what you should do,’ and the president signs it but attaches a statement saying ‘I don’t want you to do it,’ how is that going to affect the motivation of the bureaucracy?” she said.
The task force also includes several prominent legal scholars, such as Harold Koh , dean of Yale Law School and a former official in the Reagan and Clinton administrations; Kathleen Sullivan , former dean of Stanford Law School; Charles Ogletree , a Harvard law professor; and Stephen Saltzburg , a professor at George Washington University Law School.  Read more