That question must be put before the U.S. Supreme Court, because the current President is trying to assert a line item veto of our laws, after they have been passed and signed into being our laws.
There does not appear to be any such authority for a President to make himself into being el Presidente, Maximum Leader, yet that is what Mr. Bush is set upon doing.
It will not take much for the communists to further additional protests against more laws that they wish for el President, Maximum Leader Bush, to not enforce.
(On the upside for RINO's and New York Republicans, why outsource to communist-enforced cheap labor in Red China, when Bush can arrange for such outsourcing, right in Aztlan (formerly, stateside L.A.)?)
Fidel Castro must be thrilled, at his success --- his people who flee from Cuba are turned back by Bush, and millions who have observed the rule of law, to become U.S. citizens, have been smacked in the face by Bush --- it is a great day for arbitrary rulers who ignore the rule of law.
There is no Constitutional Amendment that is needed, when the Amendments in the Bill of Rights are all that are required for the people to enforce the laws that our public servants will not do.
The rule of law, is the consent of the governed, and the consent of the governed, is the rule of law. No King, no President, no Judge, no Dictator has the power to decide what is our rule of law.
We do, because we are sovereign. We decide what is the authority of the government upon which to act, and when, and where, and how; and we create laws in expectation of their being enforced.
When Judges cry out for "judicial independence," we say, "nuts," because the judges' "protests" are meant for taking more power from the people.
When Administrators cry out for more authority for their offices, we say, "nuts," because the administrators' "protests" are meant for taking more power from the people.
The federal government of the United States, nor any of its agents and agencies, is any kind of "need" for more power.
What is needed, is for all government agents to be reminded that they are public servants and liable, and subject to lawful prosecution and imprisonment and harsh penalties, for failure to uphold their duties to the people - and to the memory of so many valiant people who have suffered in the fight for liberty.
American citizens, doing the work that cowering politicians will not do.
We supply the bite, not the "experts" inside government, nor the princes and princesses of power.
It is a great country, when liberty and the rule of law are respected, and when we must enforce our laws on these matters, against wayward government officials.
We have a law enforcement problem, with a chief law enforcement officer who is refusing to obey the law --- which is so common a problem throughout Mexico, where the people cannot, therefore, get justice; and we do not need to have government officials in the United States, institutionalizing the arbitrary and capricious acts of foreign dictators, big and small, and terrorizing people who are left in the dark because we never know what laws will be enforced by the politicians obsessed at any given moment.
We cannot have government leaders violating their oath, nor circumventing the Constitutional authority of their offices, nor operating in extra-Constitutional space.
We have the right to stop them, by putting them out of office and in jail, if need be.
Bump to an excellent post.
I agree. Where do we start. I want to start today. I don't want to have to wait for an election. It'll be too late.