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Kagemusha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 08:14 AM
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31. I think, regardless of my FEELINGS...
that the courts would have been committing an act of rebellion against the United States of America were they to have attempted to unilaterally place President T Roosevelt under arrest or place a restraining order on him with the aim of preventing him from accomplishing his lawful duties as the elected head of the executive branch.

Besides that, just speaking from the POV of reality, not constitutional law theory in isolation, unitary executive theory is less about preventing the divestment of power, than the accumulation of it to begin with, in the name of preventing the divestment of power. It's like invading a country for self-defense. It's not what it's described as for PR purposes. It's grabbing power in the name of preventing those OTHER branches from grabbing power, or seizing power improperly so that they can't keep ill-gotten power.

Here's the bottom line. If Roosevelt assembled too much power, it was not the place of the Supreme Court to issue an injunction against the entirety of the presidency. The sole remedy to actually bring a President down was, is, and shall continue to be, impeachment. It's impeachment or bust.

My FEELINGS have not one tiny bit to do with it. And neither, quite frankly, do yours or anyone else's. Not for this. A lot of other things, yes. But not for this.
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  -Cheney to disregard Congressional subpoenas kurth  Nov-06-06 08:22 AM   #0 
  - Then he will be found in contempt of Congress  bluestateguy   Nov-06-06 08:23 AM   #1 
  - Paging, Henry Hyde, paging Mr. Hyde...  Tellurian   Nov-06-06 08:35 AM   #8 
  - Yes but you are forgetting who is now making the Law  Toots   Nov-06-06 08:54 AM   #12 
     - Hmmm...  Tellurian   Nov-06-06 10:15 AM   #18 
  - Not true, sorry to say  magellan   Nov-06-06 07:07 PM   #23 
  - Good. Try it, Cheney. Doesn't this mean someone can go in there  babylonsister   Nov-06-06 08:24 AM   #2 
  - Why do OUR 'constitutional officers' ignore the laws of the land.......  Double T   Nov-06-06 08:28 AM   #3 
  - It's good to be King!  acmejack   Nov-06-06 08:30 AM   #4 
  - Above the law. -nt  CrispyQGirl   Nov-06-06 08:32 AM   #5 
  - Just shows his disregard for the Constitution of the United States  liberal N proud   Nov-06-06 08:33 AM   #6 
  - It's an interesting situation. I can definitely see a Constitutional issue that needs to  MJDuncan1982   Nov-06-06 08:33 AM   #7 
  - With such defiance, it's a shame the House could not impeach the VP  indepat   Nov-06-06 08:36 AM   #9 
  - Wasn't Clinton subpoenaed by Congress?  TechBear_Seattle   Nov-06-06 08:37 AM   #10 
  - No such event  Kagemusha   Nov-06-06 08:55 AM   #13 
     - Ah, I sit corrected. Thanks. n/t  TechBear_Seattle   Nov-06-06 09:03 AM   #15 
  - Anyone else find it ironic that Cheney is publicly 'out in front' on issues not yet engaged...  Blackhatjack   Nov-06-06 08:38 AM   #11 
  - not surprised at all  stop the bleeding   Nov-06-06 10:18 AM   #19 
  - No, I don't believe that at all..  Tellurian   Nov-06-06 05:55 PM   #20 
  - So very arrogant. They think who the hell they are.  Cass   Nov-06-06 08:59 AM   #14 
  - Nothing.  Kagemusha   Nov-06-06 09:06 AM   #16 
     - In the past when there was a dispute between the Executive  Dhalgren   Nov-06-06 09:15 AM   #17 
     - But there is..  Tellurian   Nov-06-06 06:23 PM   #21 
        - A restraining order? On the Presidency itself?  Kagemusha   Nov-06-06 06:57 PM   #22 
           - Just wondering..  Tellurian   Nov-06-06 07:45 PM   #24 
              - The gray area is expanded for people not running the executive branch  Kagemusha   Nov-06-06 07:50 PM   #25 
                 - I'll have to take your word for it..  Tellurian   Nov-06-06 08:24 PM   #26 
                    - You're thinking too hard. You don't need unitary exec theory for this  Kagemusha   Nov-06-06 09:37 PM   #27 
                       - What are your feelings  Tellurian   Nov-07-06 03:20 AM   #28 
                          - I think, regardless of my FEELINGS...  Kagemusha   Nov-07-06 08:14 AM   #31 
  - we can have him arrested in 2 years if we play our cards right.  MGD   Nov-07-06 03:29 AM   #29 
  - he's an arrogant son of a bitch  AtomicKitten   Nov-07-06 03:40 AM   #30 
 

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