Thursday, May 11, 2006

Tainted

Yglesias outlines all the things the administration has declared the right to do. It's actually worse than that. They don't really believe the Supreme Court will agree so they'll keep ensuring that no cases ever reach the Court, not until more Alito clones get put on the bench. More than that, it's a way of sidestepping our entire criminal justice system. Once you start with the "fruit of the poison tree" - derived from illegal searches, illegal wiretapping, torture-inspired confessions - you ensure that no one scooped up through these means can actually go through the system, so you get indefinite detainment without charges, gitmo, rendition, etc... It's all one thing. You can't separate them.

It's why we used to respect the constitution, the rule of law, and our constitutional system of justice. No longer, apparently.