- Keeping prisoners in Cuba so that they will not have easy access to the courts.

- Getting a law passed that takes away the power of the courts to hear Habeus Corpus petitions from the prisoners in Cuba.

- Using signing statements that state his interpretation of a law – in order to have an excuse for ignoring the will of congress.

- Spying on people without a warrant under some kind of a theory that it is legal.

-Distorting the language of the Geneva conventions so that he has an excuse to torture prisoners – and then making the torture techniques a classified secret, so that the prisoners can’t talk about them, even with their own lawyers.

- Declaring that certain people, including some U.S citizens, are not entitled to the protections of the criminal law, such the right to a speedy jury trial and the right to confront and cross-examine witnesses, on the theory that they are enemy combatants and then making it difficult or impossible for these people to get a fair hearing on the issue of whether they are an enemy combatant .