Congress left for recess this month without authorizing funding to fight Zika.
Douglas' opinion was a creative but unpersuasive effort to protect individual freedom not explicitly covered by any enumerated rights without authorizing the courts to scrutinize restrictions on economic liberty in any meaningful way.
Perhaps 100 or more additional settlements have been built since 2001 without being authorized.
The US State Department has also promised to penalize anyone who buys Libyan oil without being authorized to do so by the National Oil Corp. and its American business partners.
Legislation aimed at banning sex with corpses and removing a body from a crime scene without being authorized to do so advanced Wednesday in the Illinois House of Representatives.
"Will President Obama do the right thing now and protect ALL diplomats and military from prosecution by a foreign court for programs (renditions) that are always without exception authorized by the White House and National Security Council?" De Sousa asked.
Second, Mr. Frankel notes that "there can be no mature discussion of national security policies without the disclosure — authorized or not — of the government's hoard of secrets".
As those of us who had to defend the 1971 publication of the secret Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War have been arguing ever since, there can be no mature discussion of national security policies without the disclosure — authorized or not — of the government's hoard of secrets.
At its crux, the debate is about whether Mr. Bush can give retroactive legal protection to telephone carriers that cooperated in the program of wiretapping without warrants he authorized weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a program that critics charge was illegal.
