Extra Legalism in the United States

In places like canada, the executive is always going to have a lot of latitude in counterterrorism. And so, you know, i do think that there is a greater comfort level in the united states with a giving the executive quite wide latitude. The apparent paradox of the american response to nine 11 being dominated by lawyers, yet so often resulting in illegal actions such as rendition, torture and warrantless spying. It's important for listeners to understand that i do distinguish extra legalism from a purely extra legal conduct of the type oren gross talked about in his two thousand and three yale law law journal article.