[Infowarrior] - Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering

[Richard Forno]

Gonzales Cautions Judges on Interfering
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Associated Press Writer

9:18 AM PDT, September 29, 2006

WASHINGTON ‹ Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President
Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that
federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the
president's judgments in wartime.

He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the
Supreme Court has long recognized the president's pre-eminent role in
foreign affairs. "The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with
relatively few tools to superintend military and foreign policy decisions,
especially during wartime," the attorney general told a conference on the
judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.

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