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When a political party supports a candidate for President, it is done with the expectation that, should a vacancy occur on the US Supreme Court, said candidate will appoint judges that embody the political philosophy of his party. Few actions by a President can have as lasting an effect as the judges they put onto the court.
George Bush has had an exceptional opportunity to reshape the court, appointing not only a Justice, but a Chief Justice as well. But Bush has betrayed his own political party with his selections. Instead of appointing Justices with an eye towards how they might rule on the issues expected to be brought before the court in the coming decades, Bush has squandered the vacancies to load up the court with Justices whose only qualification appears to be that they will protect the rear-end of their benefactor should that become necessary.
The new Chief Justice, who owes his position to President Bush, will preside over an impeachment trial should that occur. Both justices will rule if Bush and his administration are indicted on conspiracy charges in the Valerie Plame case, not to mention a lawsuit against the government for violation of 18 USC - 371.*
Certainly the appointment of Harriet Miers reveals Bush’s shallow and self-centered decision-making process. Harriet is not a judge, has authored few scholarly legal opinions, and therefore there is no record to predict how she will rule on anything. Her only qualification seems to be that she was in charge of the "cleanup" of Bush’s Texas Air National Guard records to conceal his loss of flight status and being AWOL. From this, it is clear that her talent is as a cover-up artist, and equally clear, this is why Bush has nominated her.
But Republicans who supported Bush in the hopes of having a Supreme Court more favorable to their political agenda must be kicking themselves by now with the realization that Bush has used his historic opportunity purely for self-preservation. It is very difficult to know how Roberts will rule on cases in the future (aside from a potential impeachment hearing), and impossible to know how Harriet Miers will rule on anything (other than a conspiracy charge against the President).
Like the power of the Presidency, like the military, like the economy, Bush has taken the authority that millions of Republicans worked to give him to appoint Justices to the US Supreme Court, and used it for purely personal gain.
The people who supported Bush in the hopes of a Supreme Court favorable to their views have been betrayed. Bush simply appointed cronies who will try to protect him from the consequences of his illegal actions, and that is not what his supporters expected or wanted.
* Bush and his agents have violated 18 USC - 371 , conspiring to defraud the United States.
This law is not limited to efforts by conspirators to steal property or unlawfully seeking pecuniary gain from the government of the United States. Case law regarding the interpretation of this statute is quite clear . This law has been violated when at least two people conspire to interfere with or obstruct a lawful function of the federal government by
a) engaging in misrepresentation or chicanery and/or
b) by making wrongful use of a governmental instrumentality ......
Bush and his agents have sought to interfere or obstruct with the following legitimate functions of government.
a) The intelligence gathering capacity of agencies of the United States have been subverted by the unlawful creation and conduct of rogue intelligence cells -operating without statutory authority or Congressional oversight - within the White House , The Office of Vice President , the Department of Defence,the National Security Council and the State Department. These extra-legal "spy shops" were created for the express purpose of polluting the US intelligence stream with a series of well planned hoaxes designed to implement the geostrategic interests of a foreign power and provide a financial windfall commercial interests in the oil and armaments industry.
b) Government’s most important function, providing for the common defense of the people of the United States, was obstructed by the diversion of funds ,military assets, and man power diverted to a military campaign that stemmed from misrepresentation ,chicanery, and the wrongful use of several governmental instrumentalities on the part of Bush and his agents. For example , funds earmarked for emergency disaster preparedness and the reconstruction of levees surrounding the City of New Orleans were diverted to Iraq resulting in the near destruction of the City of New Orleans.
To further this conspiracy or prevent exposure of the underlying crime , 18 USC -371, Bush and his agents engaged in the following criminal acts.
1) making false and misleading statements to Congress
2) mishandling classified information
3) making false statements to FBI investigators
4) leaking classified information to individuals lacking the required security clearance to acquire such information 5) committing perjury before a federal grand jury
5) Engaging in the concealment and destruction of evidence relevant to a federal probe authorized by the Justice Department at the request of the CIA .
6) illegally using assets and employees of the United States to intimidate potential witnesses who had the means ,stature and likely inclination to expose the Bush administrations repeated violations of 18 USC-371 , a conspiracy to defraud the United States.
7) illegally obstructing a duly authorized investigation of a standing Committee of the US Senate in a successful attempt to pressure that committee to issue a final report to the US Congress that exonerated the illegal governmental activities of Bush and his agents, as outlined in 18 USC-371 .
8) improperly providing conspirators pay raises ,promotions, and other emoluments ,some funneled through illegal covert slush funds, in order to a) to reward conspirators and b) secure their silence if this conspiracy to defraud the United States became subject of either a Congressional or Judicial inquiry.