it's a long read, but if you love your country, you should
Bush challenges hundreds of laws:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...aws/?page=full
Quote:
|
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office
|
Quote:
|
Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government.
|
Quote:
|
David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive-power issues, said Bush has cast a cloud over ''the whole idea that there is a rule of law," because no one can be certain of which laws Bush thinks are valid and which he thinks he can ignore
|
Quote:
|
the extent Bush is interpreting the Constitution in defiance of the Supreme Court's precedents, he threatens to ''overturn the existing structures of constitutional law
|
Quote:
|
A president who ignores the court, backed by a Congress that is unwilling to challenge him, Golove said, can make the Constitution simply ''disappear."
|
Bush basically makes the system of checks and balances non existent
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/wa...ing_statements