Power Sweepers

David Stout, New York Times reportatorialist, rues Supreme Court decisions aiding and abetting the

Bush administration’s drive, at least for now, for sweeping executive powers in the post-9/11 world

Those sweeping powers?

...In one case, the court refused to stop the administration from bypassing environmental reviews in building a security fence along the border between the United States and Mexico. In the other, it agreed to hear the administration’s appeal of a lower court decision that, on environmental grounds, restricted the Navy’s use of powerful sonar off the Southern California coast.

Stout has the sweeping powers schtick bass ackwards. The only powers running amok here are those using environmental lawsuits to carry out a sweeping range of the leftist agenda - such as preventing the Navy to search for enemy submarines and preventing the border patrol from stopping illegal alliens.

Crossposted at UNCoRRELATED