Reply #6: They sure as hell do. [View All]

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

This bill is spectacularly, monumentally unconstitutional. It's industrial-strength unconstitutional, in about a dozen different ways. I think even this Supreme Court might choke on it -- after all, they kicked the government's ass in Runsfeld v. Hamdan. In fact, this abomination is Bush's attempt to undo Hamdan. Only problem for Bush is that Congress can't make an unconstitutional law constitutional. The Supremes win that war. Even the attempt to strip the federal courts of jurisdiction won't work because of the Constitutional separation of powers.

I firmly believe that Bush and his stooges in Congress all know this is an unconstitutional law, but they could vote for it, wrap themselves in the flag and claim they're Protecting 'Merka from Terra, then whine about activist lib'rul judges when the Supremes throw it out.