[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Preservation of rule of law demands the executive give great deference to the findings of the courts. The rule of law is something worth preserving, but please note, the lawlessness of the courts seems to be the greatest threat to rule of law these days.

Clearly, rule of law and rule by lawyers are two different things. For the rule of law to work, lawyers and most especially judges, must be true servants of the law.

[jamese777]

What I found amazing is that a Navy Lieutenant Commander JAG officer(Charles Swift), serving as defense attorney for Osama bin Laden's driver was able to take his Commander-in-Chief and the Secretary of Defense to the Supreme Court and win on behalf of a foreign national.

That chain of events in the chain of command could only happen in America.

[bvw]

Re the court's recent ruling, and adherence thereto, the phrase "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such ..."

That is the case since Kelo, since Lawrence, since McConnell v FEC, and now the most recent ruling pulling in lies about the Geneva Convention as law.

Like Andrew Jackson once did, the President should ignore this ruling, and even go beyond Jackson's princibled stand -- officially rebuke the decision, reamrking that the USSC had no aurthority to rule either way on this issue.