Will it go to the SC, will Obama continue to advance the protection of the status quo and seek to have this case dismissed?
Are you glad to see a judge has finally ruled that no one is above the law?
http://www.myantiwar.org/view/181512.html
To the 2nd poster; If Yoo admits guilt, or is found guilty, that opens the door to prosecutions of Cheney, Addington, Bybee and the others who approved denying Padilla his rights and sets up this constitutional case: By what act of Congress did the Bush Administration refuse the fourth, fifth and sixth amendment rights of a US citizen who was not picked up on a foreign battlefield but in an airport in Chicago? In fact, there was no such act of Congress permitting this, which would have required a constitutional amendment, so this lays the legal foundation for other prosecutions that AG Holder can hardly ignore.
Let's not forget that the impeachment of Nixon was out of the question when the Watergate hearings began, as well as the prosecution and conviction of any of his senior staff. True, these are different times, but when a Bush-appointee like this judge is ruling against a member of the White House Inner Sanctum, it's a tip-off that things have changed.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White was himself a conservative appointment by Bush himself.
4 th poster; You call writting a 40 something page "memo" on how to break the law an "advisement"?
Are you glad to see a judge has finally ruled that no one is above the law?
http://www.myantiwar.org/view/181512.html
To the 2nd poster; If Yoo admits guilt, or is found guilty, that opens the door to prosecutions of Cheney, Addington, Bybee and the others who approved denying Padilla his rights and sets up this constitutional case: By what act of Congress did the Bush Administration refuse the fourth, fifth and sixth amendment rights of a US citizen who was not picked up on a foreign battlefield but in an airport in Chicago? In fact, there was no such act of Congress permitting this, which would have required a constitutional amendment, so this lays the legal foundation for other prosecutions that AG Holder can hardly ignore.
Let's not forget that the impeachment of Nixon was out of the question when the Watergate hearings began, as well as the prosecution and conviction of any of his senior staff. True, these are different times, but when a Bush-appointee like this judge is ruling against a member of the White House Inner Sanctum, it's a tip-off that things have changed.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White was himself a conservative appointment by Bush himself.
4 th poster; You call writting a 40 something page "memo" on how to break the law an "advisement"?