From our outgoing Attorney General. The head of the Justice Department.
In his first remarks since his resignation was announced Tuesday, Ashcroft forcefully denounced what he called "a profoundly disturbing trend" among some judges to interfere in the president's constitutional authority to make decisions during war.
"The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can put at risk the very security of our nation in a time of war," Ashcroft said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers group.
Oh yeah, we wouldn't want our judiciary to go around "second-guessing" presidential fiats. That would be such an intrusion...
Remember, you 51 percenters, you voted for these nutballs.
