is Bush doing any of those things?
this SCOTUS you praise so highly has recently found a new constitutional right to avoid execution for Lee Malvo, totally stood the takings clause regarding private property on its head, and on and on. we are supposed to trust them?
if we had 5 Clarence Thomas on the court, the administration would win this Padilla case. its all totally arbitrary.
Secondly, I never suggested Bush is doing any of this - but arguments over enhanced war powers for the President suggest that Bush should operate independently of the Constitution if he deems it necessary for the war effort. If so, then at what point do you think that Bush has exercised way more power than he should, if you do think in fact there is such a point? Granted that the question was ducked over whether or not the President has the legal authority to do most of that list in time of war, but if you suggest that the powers of the presidency are not unlimited in wartime then what are the limits?