It is a policy and legal dispute, with folks on both sides acting in good faith.
Good faith?
Gimme a break!
The 6th Amendment is written very clearly and should leave no doubt in even the mind of a school child, that "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial ... and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." If Dubya and Ashcroft are acting in good faith, then that implies that neither of them can comprehend that simple statement, which makes them out to be idiots. So which is it? Are they acting in good faith or are they idiots? Either way, they have no business in positions of power.
I don't worry about rampant tyranny seizing America, because the American culture is inimical to that.
I have just three things to say in regards to that ludicrous statement. The first two are, the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968. The third is that these two examples demonstrate that once we allow the government to subvert the Constitution, for any reason, even our American culture finds it almost impossible to turn back the clock.
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --- James Madison
That's what we are seeing now. Whenever the government or anyone in it attempts to subvert the Constitution, every day that we allow to pass, before reversing that assault on our liberties, makes it that much tougher to reverse it and that much more unlikely that it will ever be reversed. I'm glad to see the court taking a stand for the Constitution at this time, so we can reverse this assault on our liberties, before it becomes so permanently enshrined in law, that our chances of reversing it will be as poor as our chances of reversing the the National Firearms Act of 1934 or the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Dubya and Ashcroft have to be stopped NOW or our children will have to face a future without these Constitutional protections and they will look back and know that it was us, who failed them, just like we know that our ancestors failed us in 1934.