Excellent column by Robyn E. Blumner in today's St. Petersburg Times. Read it.
"Are the courts really going to let this president and vice president run the country like it's their own amusement park? Are our laws mere suggestions? Is our Constitution really too high a bar? Even the U.S. Supreme Court said war doesn't give the president a 'blank check' to abuse individual rights. But some judges haven't gotten the message.
The Bush administration is writing a new playbook for our nation. All of the once-solid rules about decency, justice and the rule of law have been tossed out, for our own safety ostensibly, and replaced by Dick Cheney's audibles.
The courts have got to counterbalance this frightening slide into Bush-Cheneyland. Our laws have got to mean something again, so that our nation does."
Emphasis added.
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