Days to watch the high court On one of these days we may learn how the high court will rule on Padia?
The Court will next issue opinions on Monday, June 14th. There are three scheduled decision days remaining in the Term (the 14th, 21st and 28th), and 22 opinions in argued cases still pending. [SCOTUSBlog]
Josh Marshall has a point about what it means to be a constitutional democracy
But that whole discussion is different in kind from one passage in the report. I quote from the piece ...
'To protect subordinates should they be charged with torture, the memo advised that Mr. Bush issue a "presidential directive or other writing" that could serve as evidence, since authority to set aside the laws is "inherent in the president." '[WSJ]
So the right to set aside law is "inherent in the president". That claim alone should stop everyone in their tracks and prompt a serious consideration of the safety of the American republic under this president. It is the very definition of a constitutional monarchy, let alone a constitutional republic, that the law is superior to the executive, not the other way around. This is the essence of what the rule of law means -- a government of laws, not men, and all that.[TPM]
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