Congress gave much more than an inch with the Patriot Act, yet the President still takes a mile or more.
Lawyer, Michelle Boardman says, "The separation of powers is working when we have this sort of dispute." But not when the president signs a bill but plainly makes exceptions. That is not separation of powers but misuse and disuse of powers.
Again the branches legislate, execute and interpret law, but the people or the press must be left to figure out who will enforce the law. Needing both law and politics in need of more respect than the Dangerfield* we are in.
* An allusion to the playing field that we create with law and politics that is now in so much danger as Rodney Dangerfield would have said, "gets no respect".
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