November 03, 2007
The Decider
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
A bunch of unelected partisan activist judges insist on construing the Constitution as a suicide pact by making decisions that weaken the capacity of the unitary executive to fight terrorism. The President, in the exercise of his inherent wartime powers as Commander-in-Chief, takes action to stop them, citing Lincoln as a precedent.
And yet the Bush Administration finds it "deeply regrettable." On what theory?
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