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Originally posted by Gattigap
Are you kidding? This case smashed the Administration's theory of the Unitary Executive so forcefully that they have David Addington on a 24 hour suicide watch. I don't care if it was 5-3, 5-4 or if SCOTUS had to go to Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's the law now.
I'd be more sympathetic to your characterization of the President as just a poor guy with a job to do and no blueprint to go by if the Administration hadn't spent the last 5 years telling Congress and the courts to go fuck themselves, thank you very much, because they, the grownups, have a plan, the Constitutional authority, and trust us because we don't need no fucking oversight either.
Gattigap
ETA: And it's not as if we've been saying that they had to empty Gitmo and put 450 guys on the NY subway tomorrow. Notably, a WaPo poll finds that 71 percent of folks think that the Gitmo detainees should either be given POW status, or charged with a crime.
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You know that and I know that. Others are apparently not able or willing to grasp the subtle dichotomy that we as Americans don't want and needn't tolerate terrorists but we nonetheless need to respect and follow the rule of law.
As Ben Franklin, a noted radical, once said, those who are willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve very little of either.
I find it very telling that in the portion of his dissent read from the bench, Justice Thomas declared that this decision will interfere with the President's "power to rule." As I recall, our system is one where the President governs rather than rules, and he does so only at the sufferance of the People.
