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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2009-03-20 08:37 am

Our congress covers themselves with glory

Okay, now they have voted to confiscate personal assets that people acquired legally through a specific allowance of previous congressional action . . .

"First they came for AIG, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't AIG . . ."

(Apologies to Rev. Niemoller)

[identity profile] pernishus.livejournal.com 2009-03-20 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Congress is doing what congress was designed to do (or at any rate to permit)... we must, however, continue to hope that the Supreme Court will function as it is designed to function...

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2009-03-20 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to say that the Supreme Court has shown . . . varied . . . reliability on defending the Constitution.