Up to 100,000 people thronged Berlin on September 18th to demonstrate against the extension of the nuclear-power deadline.
But the letter never mentioned the War Powers deadline, or the law at all, or acknowledge that an act by Congress would amount to anything more than spiritual comfort.
As the war powers deadline approached, Mr. Bauer held a series of White House meetings at which he contested the Office of Legal Counsel's interpretation and invited leading lawyers from the State Department and the Pentagon to join him in preparing competing legal opinions for the president.
That is the power of deadline.
If Parliament fails to elect a president by the constitutional deadline, power will automatically be handed over to Mr. Siniora's government.
Calling on Democrats to negotiate a budget deal, House Republicans proposed a new version of the deficit-reduction "supercommittee" that unsuccessfully sought a similar agreement in 2011 — only this time, with less power and no deadline.
You take the information that you learned from that choice and you use it to make another informed decision the next time a craving pops up, since next time you might be in a place where sleeping or taking time off work is an option and you won't need to eat in order to stay awake or power through a deadline.
The UN experts are calling on the government not to extend the powers beyond their deadline on 26 February, but French politicians are considering changing counter-terrorism laws.
I've long depended on Red Bulls to power me through deadlines, but was recently horrified to discover a 473ml can of the stuff contains no less than 13 teaspoons of sugar.
Mr. Koh noted that there had been disputes about whether the 60-day clock of the War Powers Resolution (a deadline that can be extended for 30 days under some circumstances) applied to deployments in which — unlike in Libya — there were troops on the ground and American casualties.
In a dissenting opinion, Justices Souter and Ginsburg said that while the law did not raise a separation of powers problem, the deadline it imposed for judicial action was so short as to raise a question of whether the law violated the constitutional right to due process.
