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Friday, December 05, 2003
Why I like Chuck
Charles Pierce over at Altercation:
Look, over there! A missing coed! Michael Jackson! Scott Peterson! Look, quick! A fake president with a fake turkey! Look!
Look!
Whatever you do, don’t look over, ah, here, where the Justice Department this week went before its good friends and poker-pals on the Supreme Court to argue that the president has an untrammelled right to announce that the country is at war whenever the president says it is, that he doesn’t even have to specify an enemy — “Evil” or “terror” apparently will suffice — and that, in pursuit of this war, the president can imprison anyone he wants for as long as he wants to, beyond the reach of any legal remedy, and that these powers are not subject to check, balance, or review by anyone anywhere at any time, least of all by the Supreme Court, which has no business interfering with the president’s untrammeled right to create and sustain his own wars. The Bill of Rights exists only at the whim of the Executive branch.
Period.
That is what your government argued this week — and, get this, it did so over the signature of The Merry Widower Himself, Ted Olson, career dirty-tricks operative and Solicitor General of the United States. (Note To Ralph and the Greens: I’m sure that Al Gore would have appointed him, too.) It is impossible to imagine that Olson believes any of this as a matter of principle — He seriously would support similar powers granted to, say, President Hillary Clinton? — especially if one believes David Brock’s account of Olson’s encouraging him to keep the pot boiling under the spurious theories concerning Vince Foster’s suicide. A truthless mouthpiece for a lawless policy. Consistent, anyway.
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