A fuming John Yoo, famous author of specious legal arguments for ever greater war powers by this President, sounds personally affronted by the Supreme Court’s recent rebuke of his own arguments in “The high court’s Hamdan power grab” in the LA Times. He accuses the Court of being “hostile,” via its “interference,” and in its “lack of judicial restraint” in the Hamdan case. He labels their decision a “Power Grab.” This is not legal argument, this is a familiar conservative ad-hominem tirade against presumably liberal members of the full bench.
But wait, this “hostile, unrestrained, & interfering” court is comprised of four justices appointed by a person named “Bush,” two by a “Reagan, and one by a “Ford.” That means fully 78% of the nine justices were appointed by Republicans. If ever a court such as this were to be “hostile” to a Republican President, an intelligent question might be to ask why? A good place to start would be with the phrase: “overreaching Executive Branch” with unconvincing legal basis for said overreaching supplied by Mr. Yoo: Mr. Yoo’s ad-hominem fuming against this conservative Supreme Court, notwithstanding.
Rich Brock, Resipsa
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