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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (542513)	2/19/2004 10:44:52 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

I agree with your general comments. My only point was that it's not at all uncommon for various levels of government to disagree about the law --- up until the Supreme Court of the land settles the conflict. I simply pointed out that --- as an example --- the Feds currently assert an authority (say, to pull a doctor's license if he even mentions the possible medical use of marijuana) that states dispute their authority to do... and several federal courts have flat out said they have no authority to do. Another example could be the federal assertion of it's 'right' to jail US citizens without trial for potentially unlimited amounts of time, based upon it's own assertion that they need to be confined because they are 'enemy combatants'... a term not defined by statute, and at direct variance with the Constitutions assertions of the rights to trial that American citizens have... among other rights.