Abu Gonzales Tells Judges To STFU Sez Prez Is THE DECIDER

[Jcrowley]

Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 29, 2006


WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime.

He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the Supreme Court has long recognized the president's pre-eminent role in foreign affairs. ''The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions, especially during wartime,'' the attorney general told a conference on the judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.

''Judges must resist the temptation to supplement those tools based on their own personal views about the wisdom of the policies under review,'' Gonzales said.

And he said the independence of federal judges, who are appointed for life, ''has never meant, and should never mean, that judges or their decisions should be immune'' from public criticism.

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[cynatnite]

1. Why does that sound like a threat? n/t

[walldude]

2. What about "resist the temptation to supplement those tools "

based on the LAW! When the repukes tried to impeach Clinton they kept saying "we have no choice it's the law of the land". Well did 9/11 negate the law of the land and the constitution.

[judaspriestess]

3. Abu Gonzalez

hilarious

[icymist]

4. If this doesn't show contempt for the Constitution and the courts....

then what does?

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Tell Torquemada to shut his yap and report to The Hague

The Palace of Peace
The Hague
Home of the International Criminal Court

Photo from the Dossier Nederland (The Netherlands)

[WinkyDink]

6. The SCOTUS needs to remind that thug that CONGRESS HAS NOT

DECLARED WAR.

THUS, this is NOT "WARTIME", nor are we "AT WAR".

[Jcrowley]

7. Irrelevant

Only the decider decides.