Meet the new boss: continuity in presidential war powers?

President Bush did not face the same issue, but his treatment of captured U.S. citizens believed to be aiding al Qaeda was somewhat more attentive to constitutional concerns.28 In any event, Bush did not assert the power to kill American citizens abroad. [...]there has been an escalation in the use of unconstitutional executive war power under President Obama, yet there has not been an outcry against him resembling the outcry against the Bush Administration, which was routinely attacked for exceeding the limits of executive power.29 Although some voices have been raised against President Obama's claims of executive power,30 they have been marginalized. [...]Obama's policies, which are much more deserving of constitutional criticism, do not generate the popular pushback that we saw, perhaps unjustifiably, against President Bush.