Each ruling may be correct. But it seems to me that the cumulative effect of these decisions makes it increasingly difficult for the president to operate in a separation of powers context.
I think the document has to be read from a commonsense perspective. The constitution is not a suicide pact. In a sense, that has to be the answer.
It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.
They are willing to test the boundaries of present U.S. Supreme Court doctrine.
Ideology aside, it's going to be difficult to run the court any better than he did. We will look back on the Rehnquist court as one of the smoothest in the court's history.
