What the Bush administration is doing here is not merely defying (another) Congressional statute, but -- as usual -- also denying the power of the judiciary to interpret the law and compel adherence to the mandates of law. The great unanswered question of the Bush administration has been, and continues to be, whether, upon losing a judicial battle, they would explicitly claim the right to defy the judicial order on the ground that the order exceeds proper judicial authority.
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chemoelectric) wrote,
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Yet to come: Defying the judiciary
What the Bush administration is doing here is not merely defying (another) Congressional statute, but -- as usual -- also denying the power of the judiciary to interpret the law and compel adherence to the mandates of law. The great unanswered question of the Bush administration has been, and continues to be, whether, upon losing a judicial battle, they would explicitly claim the right to defy the judicial order on the ground that the order exceeds proper judicial authority.
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I just backed Send Al to Vermont for the No Nukes Oral History Project on @Kickstarter http://kck.st/1U3In0X
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Happy birthday to
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probability theory
1. Anyone interested in probability theory who does not read at least the early chapters of…
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