We elected these holders of high office – the home and foreign secretaries who ostensibly control MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, the MPs who cluelessly voted through laws such as Ripa (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act), Drip (Data Retention and Investigatory Powers) and will do likewise for whatever loose statutes will be proposed after the next terrorist/paedophilia/cyber crime panic arrives.
"The interplay with governments -- whatever the statutes say about the supreme independence of the European Central Bank -- is a fact of life," he says.
Stevens said the judge "didn't get distracted about his thoughts on whether it made sense to do whatever the statute requires, but he just analyzed [the law's constitutionality] in terms of existing precedent".
Yet a cabal of well-financed individuals lacking the legislative power to overturn the act has striven to overrule the will of the people and hatched a plot to kill this statute by whatever means necessary.
But Obama's Justice Department, like Bush's, has not been above an opportunistic (and occasionally downright Procrustean) reading of particular statutes to permit whatever it is that the White House wants to do.
The Ledbetter Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (itself a highly suspect document, though the lamestream media refuses to launch a full-scale investigation into how it broke the laws of man and God, but whatever) to say that the statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit resets with each allegedly discriminatory paycheck.
We wouldn't have known that the Bush administration decided that the rules for foreign intelligence surveillance collection were too cumbersome and that they should just throw aside the statute and collect whatever they wanted to, under the president's own authority, leading to the near resignation of the attorney general and the head of the FBI.
In their questioning, justices expressed the view that whatever the burdens and uncertainties under the sweeping statute, alternative approaches would not solve existing problems and could create new ones.
Whatever one thinks of the offense, it complies with the current statutes of the National Federation of State High School Associations.
In a 1933 broadcast, he explained the balancing act required of a judge in interpreting statutes: On the one hand he must not enforce whatever he thinks best; he must leave that to the common will expressed by the government.
