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----excerpt------- (CROSSTALK) MATTHEWS: Up next, we‘ll get some reaction to Tice‘s allegations from former Attorney General Ed Meese. He‘s coming here. You‘re watching HARDBALL only on MSNBC. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. From the NSA‘s secret spying to the CIA leak probe and the bribery on Capitol Hill, there‘s no shortage of legal questions and criminal matters facing Washington lately. But just how many people have broken the law? We‘re joined by a man who knows, former Attorney General Ed Meese. He‘s author of the “Heritage Guide to the Constitution,” a very impressive volume, sir. Thank you. Let...

Heritage Foundation's Ed Meese Praises Bush's New Court ChoiceWashington, Oct. 31, 2005—Edwin Meese III, chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, issued the following statement today on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to be associate justice of the Supreme Court: “President Bush has made an outstanding choice in nominating Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. Judge Alito is a distinguished scholar, a gifted lawyer with broad and impressive experience, and is known in the bar as one of the greatest appellate judges in America today. “Judge Alito’s legal credentials are impeccable. He...

A prediction or a threat? As the plane carrying the late President Reagan arrived back at Point Mugu Naval Air Station on Friday afternoon, Ted Koppel made it clear he was appalled at the suggestion that Reagan was the "greatest President of the 20th century," complaining that would mean "hopscotching him past Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Koppel predicted, or threatened, that if Reagan's "supporters try to raise to him to the very heights there, and perhaps find a place for him on Mount Rushmore," that the "controversial President" who had "fairly contentious issues" in his presidency which "we've...

Ronald Reagan not only had a wonderful sense of humor when it came to his adversaries, he could also laugh at himself when was the butt of a good deed gone awry, said former Attorney General Ed Meese In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Meese recalled an incident concerning the White House correspondence section which answers letters sent to the president. "When he was president he would have the correspondence section give him about 30 letters every month that he would answer personally. They came from all kinds of people. One particular day he got a letter from a...

Former Attorney General Ed Meese said Tuesday that the Republican controlled Senate should have censured Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., after he called President Bush a liar last month, saying that Kennedy was "a reprobate." "The worst thing that I've seen in Washington in a long time was Teddy Kennedy - that reprobate - standing on the floor of the Senate and calling President Bush a liar, and nothing happened [to him]," Meese told radio host Sean Hannity, who was broadcasting from the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. The Reagan administration's top lawman continued: "I would have thought that the entire...

 Conservatives have stalled an attempt by immigration bureaucrats to water down the oath of citizenship. The scheme, "crafted within the darkest corners of the Department of Homeland Security," according to UPI, would soften the oath's commitment to defend the Constitution and eliminate a promise to bear arms. Thank Edwin Meese and Sen. Lamar Alexander for stopping the nonsense, at least for now. Former U.S. Attorney General Meese, a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, fired off a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. Alexander, R-Tenn., led efforts in the U.S. Senate to codify the oath as is. The revision...