Sir Pindar introduces an interesting (to me) concept: the continuum of the US House, Senate, Presidency, and courts, when he wrote: "...this Senate..."

In other words: no matter the personalities involved, or their status as alive or dead, corrupt or righteous, currently-elected or ancient; the actual persons making laws, executing laws, or judging laws is irrelevant; the 'will of the people' , the overall zeitgeist, will inevitably, be observed and served. Beautiful. Really.

Lieutenant Watada's case was declared a mistrial (rightly, I think) because his lawyer could not agree to the details of his client's pre-trial stipulation(s), or their implications.

Mister Watada will soon have to decide whether he wants to be the prosecutor of US v Bush, or the defendant of US v Watada.