Bush, Congressional Rethuglicans aim to destroy judicial review

The Supreme Court's landmark 1803 decision in Marbury v. Madison established the power of judicial review: the Supreme Court's ability to strike down laws that it finds violate the Constitution. Marbury is generally considered the most important Supreme Court decision in history. Chief Justice Marshall wrote for a unanimous Court in Marbury that, "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." In the intervening two centuries, the Supreme Court has come to be universally accepted as the final arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution. Until now. The pro-torture "compromise" recently approved by the Bush administration and those "courageous" Congressional Republicans (McCain, Warner, Graham) is nothing less than an attempt to destroy judicial review and give Bush, not the courts, the ultimate authority to interpret the Constitution. There's more after the fold: