To: oceanview
"if the SCOTUS gives these combatants rights - Bush should ignore the order"
You might want to reread the constitution. If the SCOTUS were to do that, the president would be obliged. There are checks such as impeachment by congress or amendments (tough to pass) that could override the decision if SCOTUS were deemed to be stepping over the line, but "ignoring" is not one of them.
What you are advocating is revolution in the very real civil war type sense.
19 posted on
08/08/2005 6:12:42 PM PDT by
ndt
To: ndt
not at all, each branch has co-equal powers. the SCOTUS cannot impeach a president.
To: ndt
No he's not. It's been done before, and nothing came of it.
Andrew Jackson.
70 posted on
08/09/2005 4:02:25 AM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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