Comments on: First Monday: The Presidential Campaigns And The Abuses Of The Bush Administration http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:14:14 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: DeanOR http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376796 DeanOR Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:10:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376796 <p>Thank you Professor for saying what our presidential candidates will not say, and what too many of their supporters overlook too as they bash each other. These are fundamental issues, which is why I am only a lukewarm supporter of any of the three. </p> <p>Support Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International, and ACLU and demand answers from presidential and congressional candidates.</p> Thank you Professor for saying what our presidential candidates will not say, and what too many of their supporters overlook too as they bash each other. These are fundamental issues, which is why I am only a lukewarm supporter of any of the three.

Support Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International, and ACLU and demand answers from presidential and congressional candidates.

]]> By: josiahbartlette http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376538 josiahbartlette Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:28:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376538 <p>If that’s the fear, then expand the court to 11 justices. We’ll see if the current roster has the wisdom and recognizes the need to take a “stitch in time to save nine”.</p> If that’s the fear, then expand the court to 11 justices. We’ll see if the current roster has the wisdom and recognizes the need to take a “stitch in time to save nine”.

]]> By: juslin http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376495 juslin Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:12:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376495 <p>ecahn - at this point school is the FURTHEST thing from my mind - i’m just trying to keep my head above water :o)</p> ecahn – at this point school is the FURTHEST thing from my mind – i’m just trying to keep my head above water :o)

]]> By: DeadLast http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376491 DeadLast Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:08:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376491 <p>It is time for democrats to wrap themselves not in the love of flag (which after all is a symbol) but rather in the respect for the constitution.</p> <p>Bush and Cheney should be charged with treason, and they should recieve the maximum punishment allowed by law.</p> It is time for democrats to wrap themselves not in the love of flag (which after all is a symbol) but rather in the respect for the constitution.

Bush and Cheney should be charged with treason, and they should recieve the maximum punishment allowed by law.

]]> By: eCAHNomics http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376482 eCAHNomics Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:53:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376482 <p>Me too. WJ this morning, in keeping with the theme of the Newseum, was asking callers what’s the most important news event of their lives. Had I been able to get thru, I would have said the seven years of the W admin in which the U.S. has become a country of torture, a country that repealed habeus corpus after hundreds of years, and a country that relentless kills and creates homelessness in a country we gratuitously invaded.</p> Me too. WJ this morning, in keeping with the theme of the Newseum, was asking callers what’s the most important news event of their lives. Had I been able to get thru, I would have said the seven years of the W admin in which the U.S. has become a country of torture, a country that repealed habeus corpus after hundreds of years, and a country that relentless kills and creates homelessness in a country we gratuitously invaded.

]]> By: Dakinikat http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376481 Dakinikat Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:53:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376481 <p>How do we get some accountability on such flagrant constitutional abuses when the justice department enables them at the moment?</p> How do we get some accountability on such flagrant constitutional abuses when the justice department enables them at the moment?

]]> By: Peterr http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376480 Peterr Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:53:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376480 <p>If having to directly deal with Youngstown was too much for Yoo, it’s no surprise that he wouldn’t want to deal with the precedent of a court that held government lawyers accountable for attempting to give legal cover to their govt for its crimes against humanity.</p> <p>Especially when the chief US prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials was Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.</p> If having to directly deal with Youngstown was too much for Yoo, it’s no surprise that he wouldn’t want to deal with the precedent of a court that held government lawyers accountable for attempting to give legal cover to their govt for its crimes against humanity.

Especially when the chief US prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials was Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

]]> By: TobyWollin http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376479 TobyWollin Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:52:46 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376479 <p>For the respondant asking where Yoo is admitted to the Bar - PA.<br /> <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×503566#512903" rel="nofollow">http://www.democraticundergrou.....566#512903</a></p> For the respondant asking where Yoo is admitted to the Bar – PA.
http://www.democraticundergrou…..566#512903

]]> By: Chacounne http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376478 Chacounne Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:52:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376478 <p>Hugh @ 101</p> <p> Thanks very much. Hmmm …</p> <p> With gratitude</p> Hugh @ 101

Thanks very much. Hmmm …

With gratitude

]]> By: Knut http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376477 Knut Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:50:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/04/07/first-monday-the-presidential-campaigns-and-the-abuses-of-the-bush-administration/#comment-1376477 <p>I think there is a justified fear on the part of Democrats that if they have to take these issues to the Supreme Court, the Court will back authoritarian government as against the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus. There would be vigorous dissent from any such decision from Souter, Stevens, and the two Clinton appointees, but the decision would stand until the Court changed and the issue could be revisited. It would be like the school segregation decision all over again. </p> <p>The Senate brought this on themselves and us by approving Roberts and Alioto.</p> I think there is a justified fear on the part of Democrats that if they have to take these issues to the Supreme Court, the Court will back authoritarian government as against the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus. There would be vigorous dissent from any such decision from Souter, Stevens, and the two Clinton appointees, but the decision would stand until the Court changed and the issue could be revisited. It would be like the school segregation decision all over again.

The Senate brought this on themselves and us by approving Roberts and Alioto.

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