you get dope-slapped by the Supreme Court...like being smacked in the pie hole with the business end of a shovel.
It is a BIG wake up call, trust Humble Elias on this.
Yup the SC has ruled that the President doesn't have the Tudor-like power to lock us all up for trial under the rules of Jus Gladii. This has immediate and obvious implications for the Guantanamo detainees and some long term impact on the whole warrantless wiretapping program.
Bush had his day in court and he lost bigtime.
Now no doubt the today and the holiday weekend to come will be full of sad yelpings from the Praetorian Class and it's numerous paid apologists in the media. Authoritarian Government always has its supporters after all. The cry will go up for even more rightical chic Justices...but with the President's approval rating mired at 29% and an election looming it is hard to see how he gets another Alito or Scalia on the Court without sending in the Marines.
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