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May 11, 2006
Cause And Effect
Today's Wall Street Journal has an article that examines why conservative judge Michael Luttig resigned his US Circuit court position to join the private sector (via Jonah at The Corner). According to the Journal, a telling moment for Luttig occurred when Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that suspected terrorist Jose Padilla would be charged in federal court, and thus be inserted into the US criminal justice system. Exhibit A:
The judge was stunned. Two months earlier, he had written a landmark opinion saying the government could hold Mr. Padilla without charge in a military brig. The decision validated President Bush's claim that he could set aside Mr. Padilla's constitutional rights in the name of national security. The judge assumed the government had a compelling reason to consider the suspect an extraordinary threat. Now Mr. Gonzales wanted the courts to forget the whole case.
Memo to Messrs. Bush and Gonzales: many Americans have no trouble distinguishing between an act of war against the sovereign US and the act of a common criminal.
The United States agreed under pressure yesterday to the creation of a system to transfer funds for salaries and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians -- a softening of its unbending effort to isolate Hamas. [...]"The thrust of this is the international community is still trying to respond to the needs of the Palestinian people," said Miss Rice, who hours earlier had urged the world to maintain a hard line against Hamas.
It is tragic that Palestinian children are suffering; it is unfortunate that a majority of their parents voted Hamas into official power. The only way to end the suffering of those children is through a lasting peace, but it's clear that Hamas' idea of peace requires the destruction of the state of Israel. Why is the administration enabling violence-worshipping Islamo-fascists?
Exhibit C, as presented by Ed Morrissey:
The Washington Post draws the correct conclusion of the low approval ratings for George Bush and his administration by reporting on the discontent among conservatives that have sunk his presidency to near-historic lows.
Any questions?
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