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...the judge ruled that it is part of government officials' jobs to commit capital treason against the United States.
The ruling is contrary to both black letter law and precedent.
Seven score and five years ago... -7.62, -6.36
by wiscmass on Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 05:45:52 PM PDT
Certainly contrary to pre-Bush-appointments-to-Fed-Bench-&-SCOTUS precedent.
The sad part is the growing body of convoluted decisions. The judiciary seems to be surrendering its authority to the Unitary Executive as surely and swiftly as did the Republican Congress prior to Nov. 2006.
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by jgilhousen on Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 05:52:37 PM PDT
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the Supreme Court has been pretty hostile to Bivens claims (suing the federal government for alleged constitutional violations) in recent years, and in this term. Not sure that claim would have gotten far under any judge.
You are right about the other part though. To claim that outing CIA agents is within the "scope of employment" of Cheney and his minions is a rather novel conception of what our governmental officials should be doing every day. To say the least.
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by mcfly on Thu Jul 19, 2007 at 07:21:22 PM PDT
wide narrow
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