Really Ashcroft - Just go home - Hurray for the courts and yes that is what they are there for

I seem to remember from Civics class that our government has a system of check and balances. One I am grateful for and one Ashcroft and shrub don't like.

What the current administration deosn't seem to understand is that most of us Americans would consider it more patriotic to die by a terrorists hand than to become as evil as the terrorist, which is what Bush and Ashcroft have done.
Ashcroft being an idiot again: "A federal judge's ruling Monday that halted military commission trials of hundreds of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on grounds that Bush had exceeded his constitutional reach and ignored international treaties on prisoners in creating the commissions.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson of Washington ruled in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver that only a military court, not the president, could deem the captives 'enemy combatants' and deprive them of Geneva Conventions protections.

That decision followed other judicial setbacks, including a divided Supreme Court ruling in June that the president does not have the authority to hold terror suspects indefinitely without access to attorneys or courts to challenge their detention.

In his speech, Ashcroft said unelected judges should show deference to the president, particularly on matters of national defense and security, a power that he said comes from the U.S. Constitution and his accountability as a nationally elected official.
(last I heard the three branches were equal, Bowing annd scraping is for Kings and Dictators not presidents of this country)

'The latitude and discretion reserved for the president under our Constitution must, of course, be greatest in the areas of national security and foreign relations, especially during times of war and national crisis,' Ashcroft said.

Scott Silliman, a law professor and director of Duke University's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, said much of Ashcroft's claims for authority rest in the president's role as commander in chief.

But the war on terror is undeclared and unlike any other in history. 'When you're dealing with a very nontraditional war,' he said, 'it is proper for the courts to probe the question of how much authority the president should have.'

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has fought many of Bush's policies, said Ashcroft's speech shows 'his clear disdain for the rule of law.'

ACLU president Anthony Romero said, 'True to form, Attorney General Ashcroft expressed disdain for anyone who dared to disagree with him, including judges.'"