The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Thursday, September 06, 2007
How Lawyers are Endangering the Rest of Us
No, I am not talking about ambulance-chasing plaintiff's attorneys who are closing emergency rooms and driving OB/Gyns out of business; I am not talking about lawyers who--with their help from Clinton appointed activist judges--are making a mockery of our attempts to enforce our borders and our soverignity; I am talking about lawyers who are putting us in ever greater danger of losing our lives in a terror attack. Glenn Reynolds has more:
So I'm reading Jack Goldsmith's new book, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration,
and so far it's quite good. Excerpt:
It is unimaginable that Francis Biddle or Robert Jackson would have written Franklin Roosevelt a memorandum about how to avoid prosecution for his wartime decisions designed to maintain flexibility against a new and deadly foe. . . . Many people think the Bush administration has been indifferent to wartime legal constraints. But the opposite is true: the administration has been strangled by law, and since September 11, 2001 this war has been lawyered to death.
Read the rest. Maybe Napoleon was on to something...
Labels: Homeland Security, Judicial, National Security
