Roberts &"Imperial Presidency".

[Ocean Breeze]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/090605.html


anyone note a rapidly evolving pattern here????


excerpt:

What’s at stake with the Supreme Court confirmation of John Roberts, especially with George W. Bush poised to name a second justice, is not only how the United States deals with abortion and other social issues but whether the President will be granted broad authoritarian powers over the nation’s future and the civil liberties of people worldwide.

While much of the focus on Bush’s choice of Judge Roberts has centered on his life-long conservative ideology, including his hostility toward women’s rights, a sleeper issue has been Roberts’s support for giving the Executive nearly unlimited authority, at least when the White House is held by a Republican.

That past support for an Imperial Presidency is even more significant now that Bush has picked Roberts, 50, to replace the late William Rehnquist as Chief Justice, creating the prospect of a Roberts Court that may extend for decades. Bush next plans to fill the vacancy from Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement with another nominee, who is expected to consolidate right-wing control of the high court.

 

[#juan]

Americans like to talk about the system of checks and balances that makes their system the best in the world. Right now, to a layman like me, their system looks like it's coming apart at the seams. Nothing is checked, and nothing is balanced, certainly not the budget.

Lee Harvey, where are you when we need you?

 

[no1important]

RE: Roberts &"Imperial Pr

Lee Harvey, where are you when we need you?

With all the new evidence, video tapes and how Lee Harvey could not hit the side of a barn with a shotgun standing 3 feet from it. He was just the "fall guy" for the Kennedy assisination. I believe either the cia or Lyndon B. Johnson men or back room boys.

 

[GL Schmitt]

Do you think that maybe the Founding Fathers — cantankerous anti-authoritarians that they were — could never have imagined the representatives of their decedents being able to control public opinion in all thirteen states sufficiently to control Congress, the Senate, the Administration, and the Fourth Estate?