Words from the Federal bench I've been waiting too long to hear
telling it like it is - finally...
dragging the nonsense out into the clean, fresh air...
and, like i speculated would happen the moment i read about the ruling, the attack dogs were immediately unleashed and the stooges in congress ran to the aid of their stricken monarch...
judge taylor puts the supposedly separate-but-equal congressional branch of the federal government to shame...
this enormous burden shouldn't have to be carried by one lonely federal judge, but, thank god, there's at least one person in this country who, in her official capacity, is acting to put a halt to these criminals... Submit To Propeller
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“There are no hereditary kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution,” wrote Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the United States District Court in Detroit.
dragging the nonsense out into the clean, fresh air...
The ruling eviscerated the absurd notion on which the administration’s arguments have been based: that Congress authorized Mr. Bush to do whatever he thinks is necessary when it authorized the invasion of Afghanistan.
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[T]he administration told Judge Taylor that merely arguing its case would expose top secret information. Judge Taylor said she had reviewed the secret material and concluded it was not relevant. The secrecy claim, she said, was “disingenuous and without merit.”
and, like i speculated would happen the moment i read about the ruling, the attack dogs were immediately unleashed and the stooges in congress ran to the aid of their stricken monarch...
No sooner had this ruling been issued than Mr. Bush’s loyalists in Congress, who have been searching for ways to give legal cover to an illegal spying program, began calling for new laws to overcome Judge Taylor’s objections. Republicans quickly pointed out that Judge Taylor was appointed by President Jimmy Carter and that some of the many precedents she cited were written by liberal judges.
judge taylor puts the supposedly separate-but-equal congressional branch of the federal government to shame...
But for now, with a careful, thoroughly grounded opinion, one judge in Michigan has done what 535 members of Congress have so abysmally failed to do. She has reasserted the rule of law over a lawless administration and shown why issues of this kind belong within the constitutional process created more than two centuries ago to handle them.
this enormous burden shouldn't have to be carried by one lonely federal judge, but, thank god, there's at least one person in this country who, in her official capacity, is acting to put a halt to these criminals... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
8/18/2006
