Under our Constitution, Congress is a coequal branch of government and we make the laws. If you believe you need new laws, then come and tell us. If Congress agrees, we’ll amend the law.

If you do not even attempt to persuade Congress to amend the law, then you’re required to follow the law as it’s written.

That is true of the president, just as it’s true of me and you and every American. That’s a rule of law. That’s a rule on which our nation was founded. That’s the rule on which it endures and prospers.

–U.S. SENATOR PATRICK J. LEAHY (D-VT)

I couldn’t have said it better myself. That’s pulled from this transcript of Alberto Gonzales’ testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the subject of the wire-tapping and surveillance. I haven’t read the whole transcript. It’s long, and it isn’t the one I wanted. Probably worth reading, so I’ll go back to it later. I wanted to pull that quote, because it’s just really well-stated.

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