Summary: <a href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2014/11/10/the-ghosts-of-presidents-past-a-conversation-with-stephen-knott/"></a>Presidential power scholar Stephen Knott discusses in this latest edition of Liberty Law Talk his book Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, recently released in paperback form by University Press of Kansas. Knott has a point in this book. He argues convincingly that the vituperative critics of George W. Bush’s use of executive power, in many instances, were willfully ignorant of the historical use of these powers. Past presidents, ranging from George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln and certain presidents in the twentieth century, defended and exercised powers similar to those…<a class="moretag" href="https://www.lawliberty.org/2014/11/10/the-ghosts-of-presidents-past-a-conversation-with-stephen-knott/">Read More</a>
