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Gonzales Said He Would Quit in Raid Dispute - New York Times
By DAVID JOHNSTON and CARL HULSE

WASHINGTON, May 26 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, and senior officials and career prosecutors at the Justice Department told associates this week that they were prepared to quit if the White House directed them to relinquish evidence seized in a bitterly disputed search of a House member’s office, government officials said Friday.

Mr. Gonzales was joined in raising the possibility of resignation by the deputy attorney general, Paul J. McNulty, the officials said. Mr. Gonzales and Mr. McNulty told associates that they had an obligation to protect evidence in a criminal case and would be unwilling to carry out any White House order to return the material to Congress.

or, is this blackmailon the partof Gangzales? After all, he doesn’t like the Constitution. or the Congress. Separation of Powers or us American Citizens.

Alexandre Del Valle - The Reds, The Browns and the Greens or The Convergence of Totalitarianisms

Think Progress » Desperate for Supporters, DeLay Turns to Stephen Colbert
A good sign that Tom DeLay doesn’t have the facts on his side: the top source for his latest defense against his critics is Stephen Colbert.
This morning, DeLay’s legal defense fund sent out a mass email criticizing the movie “The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress,” by “Outfoxed” creator Robert Greenwald.

The email features a “one-pager on the truth behind Liberal Hollywood’s the Big Buy,” and the lead item is Colbert’s interview with Greenwald on Comedy Central (where Colbert plays a faux-conservative, O’Reilly-esque character). The headline of the “fact sheet”:

DeLay thinks Colbert is so persuasive, he’s now featuring the full video of the interview at the top of the legal fund’s website. And why not?

According to the email, Greenwald “crashed and burned” under the pressure of Colbert’s hard-hitting questions, like “Who hates America more, you or Michael Moore?”

Apparently the people at DeLay’s legal fund think that Colbert is actually a conservative. Or maybe they’re just that desperate for supporters.

Scalia Tells Congress to Mind Its Own Business
By Charles LaneWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 19, 2006; A19

Justice Antonin Scalia rebuked fellow conservatives on Capitol Hill yesterday, saying they have gone too far in trying to prevent the Supreme Court from using foreign law in its constitutional rulings.

Scalia dissented vigorously from the court’s recent decisions that invoked foreign law to help strike down the death penalty for juveniles and laws against consensual homosexual conduct. In Congress, conservative Republicans responded angrily to the rulings and introduced bills that would either condemn or ban the court’s use of foreign legal authorities.

But in his speech to a National Italian American Foundation luncheon attended by several House members, Scalia said, in effect, that he does not need any help.

“It’s none of your business,” he said, referring to Congress. “No one is more opposed to the use of foreign law than I am, but I’m darned if I think it’s up to Congress to direct the court how to make its decisions.”

snicker…..

Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators
By Jason Leopold
    t r u t h o u t | Report
    Saturday 13 May 2006
    Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than half a day Friday at
the offices of Patton Boggs, the law firm representing Karl Rove.
    During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy
White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled
White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his
role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove
that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct
knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.

World Can’t Wait | Drive Out the Bush Regime
y McGinty forcibly incarcerated Carol
Fisher in the psych unit of the Cuyahoga County Jail in downtown Cleveland, where she now
sits for an indefinite period of time.

In a hastily called hearing yesterday, Judge McGinty made a
highly unusual and outrageous decision to force Carol to undergo a state psychological
exam as part of her pre-sentencing investigation. From the very start of Carol’s
case, the judge has openly said that she must have mental problems for
resisting an unlawful and brutal encounter with Cleveland Heights police.  He went even further in yesterday’s hearing,
saying that her opposition to the Bush regime makes her “delusional.”

Called Delusional for opposing the maniac in the White House and jailed in the Pysch Ward? I call that criminal. The last nation to certify people for opposing the government was the USSR…

ITMF

>About Halliburton
An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even
when climate change makes life as we know it impossible.
[Speech, photos]

“The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no
matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way,” said Fred Wolf, a
Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss
conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida.
“This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate
change,” he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.

and how did I find this gem? I was emailed the Press Release directly from the Profiteers Mouth

Bush challenges hundreds of laws - The Boston Globe
WASHINGTON — President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ‘’whistle-blower” protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush’s assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ‘’to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ‘’execute” a law he believes is unconstitutional.