I'm old enough to remember the cold war. One of the big criticisms of Eastern block countries was that the courts were subservient to the government, that the government was not constrained by the law and that trials were secret.
Have we forgotten this already?
If courts have found that national security concerns override any law and something is a national security concern merely on the say so of the executive branch then is there any constraint on executive branch power at all?
We've forgotten that, internal passport checkpoints, arrest without articulated cause, search without warrant, warrantless surveillance, national IDs, and a whole lotta other things which used to be mentioned as code for the worst oppressive governments and which are now widely accepted as normal, even demanded, by the masses.
There's a whole lotta people who figure this isn't going to get fixed without things breaking.
I'm old enough to remember the cold war. One of the big criticisms of Eastern block countries was that the courts were subservient to the government, that the government was not constrained by the law and that trials were secret.
Have we forgotten this already?
Given that our current President wasn't alive for half of it (exclusive of petering out, 1947-1961), that seems pretty likely.
Have we forgotten this already?
If courts have found that national security concerns override any law and something is a national security concern merely on the say so of the executive branch then is there any constraint on executive branch power at all?