President's actions ruled illegal one more time

Once again the Supreme Court has ruled against our warmongering President’s continuing attempt to become King of America. On Thursday morning the ruling in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld was announced. The Supremes found the commissions established for trying the Guantanamo detainees to be illegal under both military justice and the Geneva Convention. Apparently the Geneva Conventions are not really ‘’quaint” as Attorney General Gonzales once described them.

The core of this decision goes back to the responsibility of Congress to approve any such action. Independent action of this sort is not included in the Constitutional duties and responsibilities of an American President. The Executive branch as headed by the President is empowered to enforce laws passed by the Legislative branch (the Congress). When are both the administration and the Congress going to awaken and shoulder their individual responsibilities. Today what we have is ongoing consolidation of power under the Executive branch without real regard to the law. The current Supreme Court ruling is a fine step in the direction of ending such overstepping.

Maybe one day we will find our Constitutional government back at the forefront. Hope does spring eternal.