Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Sunday, August 27, 2006 12:37:51 PM
This morning, the G-T published a fawning
column by Jacob Sullum on Judge Taylor's decision.
I have been a G-T suscriber for more than two decades now, and I am likely to be one for the remainder of my life. I love the paper.
That said, it tends to be uncritical of judicial excesses. A few months ago, it didn't bother to mention the inconvenient fact that Congress has the Constitutional power to limit the jurisdiction of the courts and had done so in the Hamden case. The five liberal justices who wrote and voted for that decision had exactly zero Constitutional authority to do so, and one of the dissenting justices said as much.
The G-T was so in love with the decision that it published a fawning liberal column and then piled on with with its own editorial in support of the "decision."
When courts act outside the clear limits the Constitution has placed on them, their "decisions" only have more weight than an ordinary editorial IF the press and the people are unwilling to challenge them. So far, the G-T has been weak kneed in that regard.
Sorry Guys
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Note: The G-T published the editorial under the title "Ruling on surveillance program a civics lesson for President" on August 27, 2005.