A Disturbing Trend
Is this a joke? Does John Ashcroft have Ashton Kutcher’s voice in his ear whispering ways to drive us all crazy, only to inform us that we have been Punk’d?
WASHINGTON - Federal judges are jeopardizing national security by issuing rulings contradictory to President Bush’s decisions on America’s obligations under international treaties and agreements, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday.
In his first remarks since his resignation was announced Tuesday, Ashcroft forcefully denounced what he called “a profoundly disturbing trend” among some judges to interfere in the president’s constitutional authority to make decisions during war.
Jesucristo.
You know what I think is “a profoundly disturbing trend"? The fact that the executive branch of the United States government believes – and this is not hyperbole anymore, this is RIGHT IN FRONT OF US – that they are above the law.
Do these people even know why we HAVE laws? Why we have judges?
Four years ago, I would have said that Republicans had far better ideas about judicial philosophy than Democrats. I thought left-wing “activist judges” who thought policies they liked trumped constitutional limitations on government were a real problem. Then the American right went completely insane, and decided an “activist judge” was one who thought the constitution didn’t grant them absolute power.
Insane.