Inviting Chaos

Critics of the Bush administration claim, since the president took office, that the war on terrorism has become an attack on civil liberties, that our basic rights are being violated and that the Constitution is being shredded.

Fascism, they claim, is just a day or so away.

This is, of course, a tad exaggerated. The truth is — thanks to an abundance of activist judges — this country can’t even enforce its own laws.

Case in point. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer blocked plans by the government to crack down on illegal immigration. The government had ordered the Social Security administration to check workers’ Social Security numbers and warn employers if any worker’s number was legitimate.

Sounds sensible.

Judge Breyer, appointed by President Clinton and, ironically, the brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, said the new work-site rules likely would impose hardships on businesses and their workers, adding that the plaintiffs had “demonstrated they will be irreparably harmedâ€