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      1. In keeping with his sober/mainstream tone at his hearing viz more wild-eyed past statements/writings, Barr's written answers suggest he's not likely to say Trump can invoke Article II powers to lawfully override FISA and related surveillance limits.
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      Barr on whether OLC should play a role in policing a president who wants to invoke emergency powers when the empirical facts do not support the existence of an emergency
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    Barr ducks answering whether he has changed his very pro-military commission views (circa first years post 9/11) in light of the subsequent lived experience of the tribunals system not working very well
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      Barr, unlike many unitarians, acknowledges that Morrison remains good law. (Unitarians like to conflate Congress's decision not to reauthorize the independent counsel law-a policy decision-w/ Scalia's dissenting view that Congress can't create such a prosecutor even if it wants.)
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