I forgot to mention it occured to me that this hasn't gotten much air from the media. Me thinks this ruling was conveniently timed with Obamas trip. We are being scammed big time. Obama is slick alright.

This is true. Where I have an issue is you can't just bury your head in the sand and pretend yesterday didn't happen just because it's inconvenient. Throwing justice overboard for expediency leaves a lot of loose ends hanging out and falsifies everything this country stands for.

I don't know how to view this except to say it gives the appearance of some of our major public institutions being seriously broken.

Over the last three decades or so this nation has suffered some setbacks of consequence that bear some serious scrutiny. If you don't do that it leaves the mechanisms in place that allowed for these kinds of things to occur. That means the country remains at risk. I fear that without making some course corrections we become subject to repetitive abuses of power that will almost assuredly occur and end in a similar result, or worse, in the future.

Where we have a legal infrastructure in place that is able to be aritrarily ignored is clearly a dysfunctional state of being and arguably modifies the democratic formulation of governance. Our elected officials are legally obliged to uphold the law and where they don't it creates an awfully hard to ignore and dangerous precedent.

I just don't see how our republic can survive where the idea of the rule law is a pretense rather than a fact. I don't think that's even a practical possibility.