{"id":306,"date":"2006-08-19T08:41:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2006-08-19T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T00:38:39","slug":"no-hereditary-kings-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;&#8230;no hereditary Kings in America&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"181\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" title=\"no more Kings George\" alt=\"no more Kings George\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/king_george_hears_you.jpg\" \/>US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has ruled the Bush Administration&#8217;s warrantless NSA <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/17\/AR2006081700650.html\">wiretapping program unconstitutional<\/a>, commenting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all &#8216;inherent powers&#8217; must derive from that Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/linkset\/2005\/04\/11\/LI2005041100879.html\">King George<\/a> yet declares himself above the law, asserting the right to ignore more than 750 laws via &#8216;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/writ.news.findlaw.com\/dean\/20060113.html\">signing statements<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The judiciary may well have shut down His Highness on the warrantless NSA wiretaps issue, but there&#8217;s frankly not enough time left in Bush&#8217;s (unelected) second term to reverse <em><strong>all<\/strong><\/em> his monarchistic actions.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has ruled the Bush Administration&#8217;s warrantless NSA wiretapping program unconstitutional, commenting: &#8230; the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no powers not created by the Constitution. So all &#8216;inherent powers&#8217; must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}