My man, Russ, is on the case
as many of us have long suspected, bushco's justification for its criminal seizure of power is just exactly what it appeared to be at the very first - a load of bollocks...
what i find especially nauseating is that congress and the american people have essentially stood silently by for going on six years while this gang of thugs dismembered the u.s. constitution and compromised or outright did away with half or more of the things that have made america a beacon of light to the world... Submit To Propeller
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Hamdan completely undercuts the Administration's already weak legal argument in defense of its warrantless wiretapping program.
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In Hamdan, the Court made it clear that the Administration can't hide behind the AUMF anymore. The Administration tried to use the AUMF argument in the Hamdan case too - claiming that it authorized military commissions for detainees. But the Court flatly rejected that idea, just as it rejected the idea that the President's inherent authority as Commander-in-Chief trumps the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The bottom line is that the Court was not buying the extreme theories of executive power put forward by the Administration in the military commissions case, and there is no reason to think it that it would buy those same theories when they are used to justify the illegal wiretapping program.-Senator Russ Feingold
what i find especially nauseating is that congress and the american people have essentially stood silently by for going on six years while this gang of thugs dismembered the u.s. constitution and compromised or outright did away with half or more of the things that have made america a beacon of light to the world... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
7/18/2006
