Gitmo Got More

I don't know if it is mentioned here and I must look over my previous work, but the big news is the 8-4 [* should read 5-3 SEE BELOW]vote overruling Bush on his preemption and rendering of the constitution. Justice Roberts was sidelined because of conflict of interest rules that he upheld by recusing himself from the decision on a case that he had earlier ruled on.

That fact [his recusal] is mentioned but I do not think it is categorized as the big news, but it is a critical blow to a "unitary executive" if any Justice he selects must be "fair and balanced" not to mention follow rules,laws and the constitution.

Now it is a matter of not making new laws that will run this stay-the-course vicious recycle.

[* should read: "5-3" - keeping with my policy of not messing with my posts without notation, I must have done some wierd math, which indicates I should slow down. There were also no labels till now, and the thought of Hit and Run.] and a "run"+"Bush" search was what brought me here.]

Give an inch, Take a mile.

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".

White House "given" some breathing room...

by the Washington Post. In a relatively informative piece there seemed an attempt to shore up the administration, while posing minimal questions or contrasting sources. I wish I could be more strident or direct than that, but it leaves the impression that either Democrats had nothing to say or things are back to recent normal for journalism, sharing the lack of responsibility for checks and balances.

Meanwhile: "...Rove won't be charged with any crimes..."
"...frees him for election duty..."
But it seems clear it is not just "...the news media being complicit in the White House’s conduct." but in my view if he retains his job with the administration, that it was policy to out a CIA agent for political gain and mislead the public for political gain. The reasoning seems simple. Bush either condones someone who lied to him or for him or never intended to get to the bottom of it.

Memories...or Excusing Pre-quashing

The Phoenix rises and who got burned or left on the hook.


Orwell roles in his grave should suggest two possibilities that at best may be one. Either there is an intention to make the best of a bad situation or the worst of a good situation. Meaning and I am rarely so direct: A and/or B. There is a better target for indictment or the target was the new press.

OK, so I am not so direct, but commentary is "hard work".
May the press be the THE PHOENIX not the quashee.

The Other News as Noted Prior.

One legal theory or piece of education that I may have derived is that people get away with what they can until they get caught. I think that that is probably a very valid legal truism, and the only way that laws are changed.

SIMPLY: the Congress makes, the Executive administers, and the Courts decide law.

I was going to say interprets, which may be more valid, but since Bush is the decider, and trusts the people not the government, I guess we are all left to interpret, or rather left behind the right. Actually I have waddled into a bit of a conundrum here. Another word I pulled out of reserve. Con-Un-Drum. Hint: Hinges on choice between interpret and decide and the corps-media...

Well, out from that ramble bush, the issue: Someone has to break a law to go to court to see if they are convicted or the law is overturned. So, along with the press which is another job that needs accountability, some serve by upholding their oath to defend the constituion as Fort Lewis soldier, 1st Lt. Ehren Watada has.

Unlike the His Unprecedence the President there is precedence.

And noted here a year ago and where military judge finds war illegal. Is there a Rosa Parks medal of justice?

Now just as people should be innocent until proven guilty, if they have the courage to violate the law, they should be given the privilege of facing the consequences.

Rough Draft or Quick Vent

Here is my reply yesterday, which I don't want to waste, and need to use as a preamble to other news.

Due to some maintanence problems, this post by Marjorie Cohn arrived in my email before I could get the rest of this posted.

REPLY RE: "Stuck on Stupid"

Please spare me such evil non-sequitors and I will spare you a useless reply.

However since men and women are dying for our freedoms, or "whatever" ( I know that they are mostly dying for their brothers and sisters and a cause they believe or believed) rather than get hung up on how a mother honors her dead or the living, we should all be honoring what I believe and I know many know they are fighting for, by using those freedoms for what we believe in.

[A LAST MINUTE INSERT: Cindy has more right and has done more to honor God, Flag, and Country of both the dead and living by practicing the freedoms that our military are fighting and dying for than the Commander in Thief has done by practicing his freedom from reality and checks and balances.]

Stuck on stupid should apply to anyone who says, "just get over it", when our constitution is being ignored, not only by the President, and many in Congress, but the so called "press". You may wonder why I left off the courts, well that is because they are divided into those that honor their job and those that have a philosophy, increasingly known as "the unitary executive". That is where the congress makes the laws, the president decides how to enforce them, and the justices have no cases since the president doesn't even need to veto a law if he doesn't have to follow it, and Republicans rubber stamp as much as they can get away with.

Hey, Democrats aren't exactly rocking the boat either, but believe it or not they are not in charge. Actually they got a lot of oars in the water and all the president does is make waves.

The president may understand one good point, that people can get away with whatever they can until they are caught, and he's a heckuva catcher.

Peace and Progress be with you, Roger

P.S.

One does not need to be a lawyer but should be able to read a full sentence even if they are sometimes paragraphs, to see how far the philosophy of "unitary executive" has violated whatever we are about.

FINALLY HOWEVER: The ABA investigates "Signing statements" and recommended full senate investigation of spying

Fooled and fooled again?

Or stolen and stolen again.
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