No, it was the arrogance, a hubris so awesome and awful you tended to forget George is not, in fact, a king but a president. One might have been forgiven for forgetting, since President George W. Bush has governed pretty much as a King George would have: by fiat and decree.
So the Supreme Court's recent rebuke of the Bush administration and the administration's chastened acceptance of same comes like spring air into a musty room. Frankly, the substance of the rebuke is of secondary importance to me, though I will recount it here.
GUANTANAMO CASE
Late last month, the high court, on a 5-3 vote (Chief Justice John Roberts did not participate), ruled that the president could not, on his sole authority, put detainees at Guant
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