Political Quotes

“It is a war between Western Civilization and militant Islamic fascists from all around the Muslim world. It does not take place only in one nation. Global is international. The Court decided the conclusion they desired and then shoehorned their decision to fit a preferred result, substituting their judgment for the constitutional judgment of Congress and of our Commander in Chief. And that was during a time of war. By doing this, the Supreme Court's majority in Hamdan further undermined our Constitution which relies on the separation of powers. The unconstitutional intervention by the Supreme Court in Hamdan could have been handled by Congress and the President in another way. Under article III, section 2, Congress could have reasserted our clearly defined authority to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and to grant jurisdiction to any inferior court of our choosing, as expressed in the very plain language of the Detainee Treatment Act. If we had not been a Nation at war, a Nation urgently concerned about protecting our citizens from attack, Congress may well have advised the Court of their unconstitutional intervention and the Court's obstruction of the ability of the Commander in Chief to protect America from our enemies and ignored the Court's decision. The necessities of war won out over the separation of powers, and for the first time the Supreme Court has engaged in setting parameters in war fighting beyond our national borders.”