Constitution
Throw the Constitution out the Window
Submitted by AlDem13 on June 18, 2008 - 5:32pm.
Constitution | Guantanamo Bay | Habeas Corpus Rights | Jeff Sessions | Constitution | Guantanamo Bay | Human Rights | Terrorism
Yeah right
"The judiciary should not have a check on the legislative or executive branches. "
These are the words of Sen. Jeff Sessions this morning in an article regarding his opinion of the U.S Supreme Court decision last week regarding Guantanamo prisoners.
As the story goes, the Supremes decided 5-4 that the U.S. Government is violating the rights of terrorism suspects as Guantanamo Bay by not giving them a right to argue in Civil court.
Voice from the grave .. JFK - Never forget and always fight for what is right.
Submitted by kevin22262 on September 4, 2006 - 12:30am.
bill of rights | Constitution | democracy | Freedom of the press | JFK | Media | responsibility | Civil Liberties | Current Events | Democratic politics | Election Reform | News and Links | Soapbox

...basically old JFK is saying that everything that's going on today is illegal.
Rediscovering these wise words confirms what we'd all already at least suspected: That JFK, if he wasn't a prophet, was certainly as much a visionary as his predecessor Dwight D. Eisenhower and his warnings about the rise of the military/industrial complex.
Kennedy here warned early 1960's America about secret societies, manipulation of the media, illegal invasions and occupations of other countries and essentially addressed everything that's going on with the present gang of corporate gangsters....http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2006/09/voice-from-grave_02.html
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Bills Bush Signed: Without Passage By Congress
Submitted by early-bird on August 14, 2006 - 6:50pm.
Constitution | George Bush Jr. | Call to Action

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/091Federal Judge OKs Law Signed by Bush Even Though the House Never Voted on It. We Need a Real Judiciary Again<!-- begin content -->Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 08/14/2006 - 3:19pm. Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
Last Friday, Federal District Judge John D. Bates conducted yet another feeble judicial capitulation to the Bush Administration when he ruled that it was acceptable for the president to sign a bill that had not been passed by Congress.
Unitary Executive
Submitted by early-bird on July 23, 2006 - 5:32pm.
ABA | Congressional oversight | Constitution | Unitary Executive | Civil Liberties

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/7/23/162526/131
EXCERPTS:
ABA to Congress: Sue Bush
by FWIW
Sun Jul 23, 2006 at 01:25:26 PM PDT
There have been several posts on dKos in recent weeks about signing statements: Pontificator's Professor Epstein Sounds the Alarm on Signing Statements, Daisy Cutter's Another Day, Another Signing Statement, Truth4AChange's American Monarchy, and my own Unitary Executive = Imperial Presidency?. These posts present some of the arguments that have been made to show how and why signing statements are unconstitutional. Yesterday I discovered that we "liberal bloggers" are in good company. U.S. News has posted an online article stating "Bar association task force urges Congress to push for judicial review of Bush signing statements. Yes, that Bar, the American Bar Association (ABA).

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