Martini Republic » Bush: homocide now legal in majority of states: "Yesterday, President Bush articulated a bold new standard for determining the validity of statutes — whether they’re sorta old:

Mr. Bush took issue with a questioner who asked why he felt the need to circumvent the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires court warrants for wiretaps.

‘Wait a minute,’ Mr. Bush said. ‘That’s a — there’s something — it’s like saying, you know, ‘You’re breaking the law.’ I’m not.’ He said that the surveillance act ‘was written in 1978″ and that now ‘it’s a different world.’

If Bush’s novel legal theory is correct, and laws sort of expire on their own without any further action by the legislature, then we alls are in a heap of trouble."

(Via Martini Republic.)