Supreme Court rules Bush exceeded his powers
When I read this headline I got excited. Really exited. But alas, the content is not exactly what I had hoped for. This is however a chink in W's armor. Maybe one day it will be the real thing.
The surprising thing here is the quote from Chief Justice John Roberts, long viewed ad W's mole in SCOTUS:
"The president's authority to act, as with the exercise of any governmental power, must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself," Roberts said. "[G]iven the absence of congressional legislation . . . the non-self- executing treaties at issue here did not expressly or impliedly vest the president with the unilateral authority to make them self-executing."
Just replace the last sentence with "[G]iven the absence of congressional legislation . . . it does not expressly or impliedly vest the president with the unilateral authority to [insert illegal W action here]" and I will be ecstatic.
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