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Well, here we go, folks – the Supremes are going to rule sometime this spring on whether the president of the United States can order the indefinite warehousing of people legally living in this country:
The case concerns Ali al-Marri, the only person on the American mainland being held as an enemy combatant, at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Mr. Marri, a citizen of Qatar, was legally in the United States when he was arrested in December 2001 in Peoria, Ill., where he was living with his family and studying computer science at Bradley University.
The ACLU has more here.
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Wowsers.
Obama should detain Bush without a trial just so George can get a good feel for it.
BTW Clinton to staff top positions at State with loyalists.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28066654/
More change we can’t believe in! That was Obama’s slogan, right?
We knew it was going to end up there. BushCo’s goal was always to extend the ruling until he was out of office and they succeeded. Now, Obama will have to deal with the ramifications of BushCo’s policy.
Boxturtle (I suspect Obama will get used to that quickly. *sigh*)
Joe Wilson? I’m wondering if there isn’t a nice spot for Valerie in National Security too.
Be interesting to see how they word the ruling to result in Bush can but no one else can.
They’ll just recycle some of the exclusive pap they used in Bush V. Gore.
Only Chimpy!
-G
I have very little faith in the current denizens of the Supreme Court.
What I want to know is what should be done about Hamdi.. you know, the US-born kid whom we detained (alongside Padilla in North Carolina), tortured, and then old-fashioned Soviet-style exiled (took his passport and cancelled his US citizenship… voluntarily given up, we said, in exchange, no doubt, for not being tortured anymore), all without ever seeing anything roughly resembling judicial process, to my recollection (well, unless you count signing and sealing the final deal). If the president can not only detain any citizen without trial but compell him to renounce his citizenship and then banish him from the republic….
From Websters. The second definition appears to fit the bill.
Alert the media. Stunning new development, never been done before….
This will likely be a good ruling. Bush will be gone, they have no reason to blindly back him.
But I suspect a 7-2 or 8-1 ruling stating that it must go through the courts. Only Judge’s I’m not sure of are Scalia & Thomas.
Boxturtle (Thomas has his own copy of the Constitution. I’m not sure what it says)
Thanks PW.
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Siegleman’s conviction could be thrown out next week too.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._1205.html
LOL. exactly right. is not change.
that’s great news. thanks.
I guess the MSM expected her to staff the State Dept with political enemies… give Delay a job maybe? or Gingrich?
OK two things re the al Marri case. First, there will be a change of Administrations before it is argued. This will affect how the case is presented if it is, in fact, ever argued. Because that’s my second point, if al Marri is switched into the regular Justice system, it is likely that the SCOTUS case will become moot as happened with Padilla.
Some of the careerists at State are concerned they might be given the bum’s rush to accommodate the Clintonistas.
Thomas’ constitution has numbers down the side. The rest is blank.
New post upstairs
Jeebus, Brennan will have to hang on a bit longer.