supreme power

With lightning-fast hands, supreme power and ingenious creativity, Buttler played shots all around the wicket, wowing a packed Edgbaston bathed in sunshine.

To justify his claims of “supreme” power, the governor cited an obscure clause that was actually intended to limit state powers, while offering a specious definition of “invasion” that was refuted by James Madison over two centuries ago.

The law, that 1882 opinion stated, “is the only supreme power in our system of government.”

He’s dealing with all the usual careerist pitfalls that tend to deflate progressive momentum: He represents an increasingly purple state; he is crucially aware of the supreme power wielded by the Israel lobbying machine; he is no longer, and never will be again, an outsider to the world of federal legislation.

“His heart isn’t in it,” said Jeff Shesol, a speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton and the author of “Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court.”