Reply #33: Is so. Bush's actions stand as precedents until they are [View All]

[petgoat]

overturned by the courts or through impeachment.

We can either let them stand until some president in the future
chooses to follow Bush's course and the case gets to court--where
we can only hope it is outlawed.

Or we can impeach and get the judgement in 2007 that these actions
are illegal.

The former case reduces the Constitution to a set of idealistic
guidelines, while the latter retains its force as the law of the land.

Defense of the Constitution from its domestic enemies requires impeachment.