Crazy Ann strikes again...

www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/anncoulter/2006/01/04/...

I so enjoy reading Ann Coulter's articles, it gives me a great amount of insight into the thought patterns of the "mainstream" right. It's also fun to watch the rantings of a woman who thinks her own right to vote should be taken away (go ahead Ann, nobody's forcing you to vote).

In pointing out that an insignificant number of Bush Administration warrants were rejected or changed (around 3% of the total, I bet most lawyers would kill for a success rate like that in court) she brings up a good question (I'm sure it's purely accidental), why is the FISA court suddenly rejecting and amending warrants? Was the court suddenly bought out by the ACLU? Did someone slip some LSD into their tea that morning? Or perhaps Bush's requests have been so off the wall, so beyond the pale of reasonable search and seizure, that this court that never rejected a warrant suddenly rejected one.

I think this little fact speaks far more about the criminal nature of the Bush Administration than it does the court.

By the way, she brings up another interesting quandary (again, purely by accident I'm sure). She seems to think it's ok to break the law in violation of an explicit court order if you don't agree with the court's decision. So I guess she'd have been fine with Al Gore taking up residence in the White House, after the famous debacle that was Bush v. Gore in 2000, because he didn't agree with the court's decision (maybe she'd even be willing to take on his case, she is a lawyer after all. One can only imagine what law school granted her a diploma but nevertheless she is still a lawyer).

If the President doesn't have to follow court orders, from a court that sides with him far more than any court has ever sided with a specific plaintiff ever in the history of the world, why should anyone have to follow a court order ever? Why should the Judiciary exist at all as a branch of government, or a check on legislative and executive power, if it can be ignored at will?