Comments on: The President Is Not A King

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:07:24 +0000

Written word is the focus of discussion

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:07:49 +0000

NIRA
AAA
“Packing” the Supreme Court
Changing Inauguration Day
Reinterpreting the Constitution’s “Commerce clause” to allow Congress to overrule the states, in contrast to the explicit statements of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution.

By: Jesse in SD

Jesse in SD — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:07:05 +0000

Frank, I’d appreciate it if you could actually list those ‘executive excesses’ you’re alluding to… rather than posting doctored pictures. After all, this is the Internet. Written word is the focus of discussion, not artful re-depictions of past presidents.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 13:07:04 +0000

How's this? And those were the only executive excesses he's known for, right?

By: Oliver Willis

Oliver Willis — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:07:57 +0000

At the very least, Frank, find a real picture of FDR and not an impersonator. And FDR was wrong to pack the courts and to intern Japanese. And on the first count he got slapped down on it.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:06:13 +0000

Unless he's a Democrat.

By: El_Loco

El_Loco — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:06:19 +0000

I had the chance to skim through the opinion and can say – just my $0.02 – that the Court’s opinion, i.e., Justice Steven’s, is pretty clear and eloquent as to what’s wrong with the military commissions.

However, Justice Breyer’s brief concurrence really cuts to the heart of the matter:

“The Court’s conclusion ultimately rests upon a single ground: Congress has not issued the Executive a “blank check.” . . .Where, as here, no emergency prevents consultation with Congress, judicial insistence upon that consultation does not weaken our Nation’s ability to deal with danger. To the contrary, that insistence strengthens the Nation’s ability to determine–through democratic means–how best to do so. The Constitution places its faith in those democratic means. Our Court today simply does the same.”

By: appletree » Blog Archive » Supreme Court Rules Against Bush in Hamdan Case

appletree » Blog Archive » Supreme Court Rules Against Bush in Hamdan Case — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:06:04 +0000

[...] Oliver Willis predicts that congress will give the president the legislation he needs to try Hamdan in a special tribunal: In all likelihood the congress will push through most of the legislation that the White House wanted, but the linchpin in this is that this nonsense could have been avoided if they went to the congress in the first place. [...]

By: The Heretik

The Heretik — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:06:03 +0000

Invasion…

The attack was sudden. And complete.
. . . the Supreme Court has struck at the core of his presidency and dismissed the notion that the president alone can determine how to defend the country. In rejecting Bush s military tribunals for terroris…