US Supreme Court rules navy doesn't have to obey laws

ABC News reports that Bush wanted the restrictions lifted. These had been placed by courts on the navy's use of sonar off the California coast. The Supreme Court has obliged:

In reinstating the use of sonar, the top US court rejected a lower federal judge's injunction that had required the US Navy to take various precautions during submarine-hunting exercises.

It is believed by scientists that sonar blasts might be killing whales and other marine life.

I guess this ruling that means the Japanese, Russians, British, French, Chinese, Indian navies will now feel free to do likewise? The article continues:

Environmentalists fear that the Court's decision could set a dangerous precedent.

Before Wednesday's decision, NRDC's senior attorney Joel Reynolds said, "If they accept the Navy's premise that the president and the Navy are entitled to a blank check in how they use sonar, then that would be a dangerous precedent and it would be a significant departure from what the law has been in this country for hundreds of years."

"Our Constitution is grounded on the fact that all of us have to comply with the law. Nobody is above the law, and that includes the U.S. Navy," he said.

So much for the Constitution.