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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:24 AM
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The Alito SCOTUS will codify Bush's illegal spying.
Make no mistake about what is going on with this spying case...it is another of BuchCo's "test cases" which they fully expect to reach the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court on which they fully expect Judge Alito to be sitting, his engraved BushCo pen in hand. Alito will be on that court ready to codify presidential wrongdoing because the democratic "leadership" is simply too spineless to stand up for the American Constitution.

Is anyone in the DNC reading this, or listening to us? A vote for Alito to the SCOTUS is a vote for dictorship in America. Period.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:37 AM
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1. Maybe but I have doubts about SCOTUS playing along.
The Supreme Court Justices are powerful people. And they understand that to do their job they must remain powerful. They will seek to preserve that power as at least a co-equal branch of government.

Moreover, I am not so sure that SCOTUS would provide a majority vote in favor of an adminisitration that has circumvented THE primary thing the Justices believe in--The Court System.

Bush absolutely knows the spy scandal is serious enough to trigger an avalanche of rejection. That is why he's made an unprecedented 4 live personal appearances in 4 consecutive days. Over this past fall there was at least one poll in which a large majority of repsondents indicated that if Bush lied to get us into the war he should be impeached. I don't think the nation will feel differently when Bush is shown (as he is being shown) to have broken federal law?


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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:39 AM
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2. Well, in that case they won't have a use for a codpiece anymore...
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Czolgosz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 08:45 AM
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3. Alito (and Roberts) have out-of-the-mainstream views on executive power
and they have radical views on the narrowness of congressional power.

These two are both devotees of an antiquated interpretation of the Constitution's "commerce clause" which the Supreme Court rejected 70 years ago. They would ignore the past seven decades of law in this area and adopt a pre-New Deal understanding of the Congress's much more limited ability to regulate corporate misconduct. This represents the most extreme activism, and it must be stopped.
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