Gonzales to Courts: Don’t Do Your Job
“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush’s anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president’s judgments in wartime.
He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the Supreme Court has long recognized the president’s pre-eminent role in foreign affairs. “The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions, especially during wartime,” the attorney general told a conference on the judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.”
Full article at WashingtonPost.com
The “military and foreign policy decisions” that Gonzales is talking about is the legislation passed last week by Congress. The Constitution is an admittedly ragged-looking document these days, but it does indeed give the courts power to judge the constitutionality of a law.
October 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 pm
I wonder what it would be like if we cast votes in cases and assisted in the decisions through large population internet polls…
…..Just an ADHD thought.
October 3rd, 2006 at 8:54 am
I am loving the whole political comment thing going on. Keep posting and yes Gonzalez seems to ignore the role of checks and balances the founders put up to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful. Oh well w/ the Republicans in power they will never bring any concrete oversite to the President. They are in effect modern day Ike and Tina Turner relationship. Bush beats them and they come back for more.
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