'President George Bush faced a rare challenge from the judiciary yesterday when two courts questioned the legality of his expansion of presidential powers in the war on terror.
In a startling rebuke, a federal appeals court refused to allow the transfer of a terror suspect, Jose Padilla, from military to civilian custody and strongly suggested that the Bush administration was trying to manipulate the judicial system.' http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1223-05.htm"trying to manipulate the judicial system", what a hoot!! the bush admin has no respect for the american system of government in the aggregate, or it's checks & balances for that matter