Congress and Courts Adopt Unilateral Disarmament.

Professor John Yoo points out that checks and balances apply to the Judicial and Legislative branches too:

A reinvigorated presidency enrages President Bush’s critics, who seem to believe that the Constitution created a system of judicial or congressional supremacy. Perhaps this is to be expected of the generation of legislators that views the presidency through the lens of Vietnam and Watergate. But the founders intended that wrongheaded or obsolete legislation and judicial decisions would be checked by presidential action, just as executive overreaching is to be checked by the courts and Congress.

This will be roundly denounced by the left. In fact, the denunciation is already underway.

The New York Times, meanwhile, is busy clouding the issue by implying that the Administration is misstating its commitment against torture.