President Not Above the Law After All
Posted By Ardellis on July 1, 2006
I wanted to post this yesterday morning, but my web host was having some sort of server problem that didn’t clear up until after I left for work.
I find myself moderately heartened by the Supreme Court ruling on Thursday that declared Bush’s special tribunals for war-on-terror detainees are illegal. Seems that even his hand-stacked Court can’t tell him that he can ignore Common Article 3.
Of course, I expect that Bush is already looking for new ways to circumvent the law to get what he wants. Because, let’s face it, he sees the checks-and-balances system set out in the US Constitution as nothing more than an inconvenience.
It’s not an inconvenience, it’s a challenge…
If we can just keep them challenged for 2.5 more years.