Long arm of the law nabs Bush

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Post-9/11 America suffered a near-breakdown of the democratic checks and balances on the executive branch of government by the legislature, independent law enforcement agencies, the courts, the media and public opinion. All became blindly patriotic.
It's only now ? after the Iraq fiasco and the growing crisis of confidence at home ? that they are reasserting their role, in varying degrees.
The American public is going through a major political rethink, thanks to a long list of honourable dissidents, from Howard Dean, Ted Kennedy and Al Gore to Michael Moore, whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is breaking attendance records, leaving audiences either dazed into silence as credits roll or moved to sustained applause.
But no institution has intervened with as much force and legal authority as the U.S. Supreme Court in stating that the Bush administration cannot continue to operate above the law.

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