Thursday, July 5, 2007

Checks and balances... dying little by little.

President Bush "commutes" Scooter Libby's sentence... after he is convicted by a jury.

Audio: Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"

2 comments:

Rob said...

But isn't the power of the pardon an executive check on the judicial branch?

Of course, using that power to obstruct an investigation into a crime that the president was a party to is probably not quite what the founders had in mind...

Damian Joseph said...

I guess with the administration it's a game of "last one to check wins."