Jonathan Turley: 'deep constitutional crisis" re. FBI raid. now on cnn.

[rodeodance]

[rodeodance]

1. The HOW it was done was the problem

[LA lady]

5. Jeralyn Merritt

I have great respect for Jeralyn Merritt and she had an excellent article about this with a copy of the Search Warrant. You may want to look at it. Her site is called "Talk Left" if you haven't seen it before it's a good one to bookmark.

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014961.html

The warrant is 95 pages and very tedious. Very bad news. Ms. Merritt says it was handled very well. She is one of us.

[Spazito]

10. I don't see where, in her writings, she says the search was handled

very well. I don't see where she addresses the search, itself, at all. She only comments on the search warrant and the subsequent memorandum by the defense and feels both documents are impressive.

Turley was making the point that the process by which the search was conducted is the issue and, from what I read from Jeralyn's comments, she doesn't address that aspect at all.

[LA lady]

16. OK

It could have been in one of her previous posts, I read her blog 3-4 times a day. Sorry if I sent you on a wild goose chase. I really like her site.

[Spazito]

17. No problem, I, too, like talkleft and firedoglake for their perspectives

on legal matters.

[panader0]

2. Amazing how this is a constitutional crisis, but not NSA or The Patriot Ac

[rodeodance]

3. yes, but John Conyers listed those this morning at the Judiciary hearing.

[magellan]

4. They're all Constitutional crises

It's just that this is the only one Congress is willing to recognize because they're the ones affected by it.

[ixion]

6. yeah, my thoughts as well

The constitutional crisis began with the 2000 coup, IMO.

[robbedvoter]

7. Le-mme see: election decided by Supreme court, secret energy commision

courts pressured to back off, POTUS lying to congress about reasons for war, POTUS making 750+ signing statements about laws not applicable to him, NSA spying on US citizens and POTUS pressuring congress. courts to lay off inquiries, V-POTUS pressuting congress to lay of 911 investigation (and countless others). I am sure there are more - in fact, let's try to get a comprehensive list - please add what I missed.

[stellanoir]

8. Ya know

I was in correspondance with a Constitutional scholar a while ago who had published an article about how we were in a Constitutional crisis which I'd been screaming about for a while.

Just for the heck of it I went to wikipedia and looked up the term. It was defined as a breakdown of the three branches of government. I wondered well we have something different or did at the time. This is the homogenization of the three branches of government and the media. Checks and balances have gone "poof." So doesn't or didn't it qualify as something else?

She said she'd give is some thought but I haven't yet heard back from her.

[marmar]

9. One of many...

Bush treats the Constitution like an old newspaper.

[leeroysphitz]

11. More like a NEW roll of toilet paper... Sadly. nt

[marmar]

13. True. Much more accurate.

:(

[The Deacon]

12. Hey -

We need to support the Congress in this Constitutional Crisis because Alberto "Its Not a Crime if the President Does It" Gonzales has threatened to quit if the Congress gets the documents back. You know of anything that would protect the Constitution more than getting rid of that fascist bastard (other than impeaching & convicting Junior & Deadeye themselves, that is.)

[originalpckelly]

14. We can only hope Gonzales does resign, like you said...

the best thing for the Constitution.

[pnwmom]

15. Why is there so little concern here that a President with this power is

likely to use it selectively, on his political enemies?