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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:01 PM
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What If Bush's Supreme Court Blocks Congressional Oversight by Hearing and Subpoena?
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What If Bush's Supreme Court Blocks Congressional Oversight by Hearing and Subpoena?

by Rob Kall

It's very likely that Bush or his surrogate has already discussed strategy with the Supreme Court Whores who put him in office and who are now tearing apart the constitution, precedent after precedent.

If they've already had those conversation-- and why shouldn't we make that assumption?-- the American people must face some very unpleasant realities.


The supposed Judicial branch of the USA has been, possibly irreparably, corrupted.

There is no ultimate recourse for justice in America.

The USA has been taken over and is no longer subject to democratic law.

Corrupt, partisan, illegal activities are no longer subject to legal attack.

It is very likely that there are many, many layers of corruption and illegal actions that will never be uncovered.


That said, the congress and the people of the US will have a serious decision to make.

If the SCOTUS blocks congressional oversight of Bush, t will be clear that the Supreme court of the US is no longer operating under good faith or integrity. The congress and the people of the US must do all they can to remedy this situation, including supreme court justices.

It is essential that the congress plan for the worst exigencies and develop strategies to handle them.

If Bush and his administration are protected by the SCOTUS from being held accountable by his Supreme Court, America will be face a situation like never before.

It will take courage and creativity, bravery and audacity, sacrifice and heroism that true patriots know.

We better be ready for it. I fear for the worst. Congress better get much tougher, sooner, or it will be too late.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:07 PM
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1. !!



Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix
From the website of the University of Southern California

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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:14 PM
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2. Congress better get much tougher, sooner, or it will be too late.
Yep. It's the only branch that's even partly still under the control of the people.
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BlackHawk706867 Donating Member (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:15 PM
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3. Yes there is a recourse... But not until the Democrats win big in 2008....
They can then increase the number of Supreme Court Justices with Democratic Presidential appointees....
That will really piss off the Republicans...

ww
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:19 PM
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4. That would be nice, but it didn't work for FDR.... nt
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BlackHawk706867 Donating Member (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:24 PM
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5. It's called fighting fire with fire and seems to me would work nicely.... eom. ww
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:42 PM
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10. Sure it would if they were able to do it
but one of the few things I remember from history class is the uproar FDR's "court packing" caused. That's all I'm saying.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:54 PM
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11. Amen....we can't operate by the rules if these guys are breaking every one of them
to deliver themselves a dictatorship. If there's a Constitutional basis for increasing the SC...let's do it. If we get the vote I think we will in 2008, there is an implied mandate to do whatever it takes to get our government and way of life back. More Justices are good anyway...it prevents packing the Court to allow political agendas to control and distort our body of law.

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BlackHawk706867 Donating Member (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:37 PM
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7. Yes, but you never had a political situation in FDR's time that you do today either! eom.... ww
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BlackHawk706867 Donating Member (670 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:39 PM
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8. Let's face it, GWB has stacked the highest court in the land with....
Political biased appointee's!

ww
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rubberducky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:34 PM
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6. I think a lot of the congress critters
are very,very afraid of this exact scenario.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 06:40 PM
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9. Then you'll join RFK at the barricades
because people will take the streets
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-09-07 10:32 AM
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12. It would make any Impeachment Trial in the Senate a sheer charade.
If the Executive Branch were permitted to unilaterally refuse access to records, staff, and all other evidenciary basis for conducting oversight, it would completely eliminate any evidenciary basis for impeachment, making that provision of the Constitution moot. In other words, it cannot be permitted and, at the same time, continue to regard the Constitution itself as the supreme law of the land.

If SCOTUS were to permit such virtually unbounded claims of "Executive Privilege" then SCOTUS would be making itself irrelevant as a check or balance on EITHER branch of government since, without the Constitution, its role is superfluous.

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