State of Texas: Bush is a "constitutionally ignorant power-grabber"

[tanyev]

Interesting. It's going to the Supreme Court. This was in today's Dallas Morning News.

State's case against Bush hits high court

WASHINGTON – It is the official, considered position of the state of Texas that President Bush is a constitutionally ignorant power-grabber.

An unusual case that the Supreme Court will hear as it begins its new term features Texas accusing its former chief executive of overstepping his office, by ordering Texas judges to comply with an International Court of Justice ruling involving a condemned killer from Mexico.

"It is, in my judgment, a breathtaking order," the state's chief appeals lawyer, Solicitor General Ted Cruz, said a few days ago as he previewed his arguments for the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. "This president's exercise of this power is egregiously beyond the bounds of presidential authority."

It's an extraordinary confrontation, not just because Mr. Bush used to live in the Governor's Mansion but because his chief accuser helped put him into the White House. Mr. Cruz served as domestic policy adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaign, was a key player during the Florida recount in 2000, coordinated hiring for the Justice Department and served as an associate deputy attorney general.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/columnists/tgillman/stories/DN-texwatch_30nat.ART.State.Edition1.42f82c7.html

[Me.]

1. I Know It Isn't

But this seems like a satire

[tanyev]

5. It just writes itself these days, doesn't it?

[hobbit709]

6. Whoopi had it right

"You can't make this shit up"

[PatSeg]

2. The man ceases to amaze me

He really does think he can do whatever he wants.

[Donkeykick]

7. Yeah. Don't Worry Though.

He is doing all of this to protect us from terrorism.:sarcasm: :eyes:

[PatSeg]

11. Whew! Thanks.

For a minute I thought he was a reckless megalomaniac.

[robinlynne]

13. He does whatever he wants.

[PatSeg]

14. Yep, rules are for other people

It is like a bad movie and I can't fastforward it!

[PDJane]

3. So far,

he has been able to do whatever he wants. He's getting away with it all.

[muntrv]

4. Any buyer's remorse, Texas?

[tanyev]

8. Not in my county.

I see fewer W'04 stickers on cars than I did in the lead up to the last election, but I still see at least one or two every day.


Sigh.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. I'm seeing more anti admin bumper stickers every day

like W the mistake
F the president
etc.

[babylonsister]

10. I live here but bought NOTHING this dimson was selling. nt

[yellowdogintexas]

18. Hey, I didn't vote for the sumbitch, or his daddy neither not

[rodeodance]

9. "A president could say it would further international comity 'big time' – that's a technical legal t

Imagine, he argued, what President Dick Cheney might do, or President Hillary Rodham Clinton –a boogeyman for each side – if they were free to "flick state laws off the books on a simple assertion of international comity."

Mr. Cheney might scrap California emissions laws that undermine Kyoto treaty negotiations and put a stop to punitive damage awards that hurt multinational corporations.

Mrs. Clinton might set aside bans on gay marriage and adoption and halt capital punishment.

"A president could say it would further international comity 'big time' – that's a technical legal term, 'big time' – if we set aside the death penalty laws," Mr. Cruz said. "Those scenarios are downright scary. That is not the legitimate constitutional role of the president."

[pnwmom]

12. It is ironic that the issue is a death penalty that Texas wants to carry out.

Bush isn't usually on the other side of that kind of argument.

[tanyev]

15. Kick.

[riqster]

16. It's just a piece of paper, right?

Why should he learn about it?:sarcasm: