today, finally, the other shoe drops

[johncomic]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061017-1.html

Comments

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

My mood won't change to despairing until such time as the Supreme Court fails to strike it down for being blatantly unconstitutional.

If Bush has to deal with a hostile Congress for the rest of his term, my mood will actually change to chipper.

[johncomic.livejournal.com]

Is the Supreme Court able to strike it down on their own, or does it require an appeal from someone who is adversely affected by it?

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

It requires a case. However, this law is so off-the-scale controversial I would be very surprised if no such case emerged; and between the judicial and legislative checks to the executive, Schoolhouse Rock might turn out to be right after all.

[jb-27.livejournal.com]

This makes me so mad. I hate living in a country where I fear that I could be disappeared because someone in the government calls me a terrorist. No attourney. No contact with the outside world. No habeas corpus. Nothing. I want to have confidence that, if I am unjustly accused of a crime, I will have a chance to fairly defend myself. The more I hear about the "war on terror", the less I feel that way.