I can't wait to hear how Keith Olbermann comes out on this one.

[maradydd]

Dear Congress,

What part of the Sixth Amendment do you not fucking understand?

Also, CNN: that is not a bill for detainee trials, that is a bill against detainee trials, and seeing as how the last time habeas corpus was suspended on anything remotely resembling this scale it was the Civil War, the rejected Specter amendment merits a metric shit-ton more than just a "highlight of this article". The fact that the Specter amendment even had to be proposed in the first place -- that Congress would propose and approve a bill that flat-out removes the Sixth Amendment rights of anyone even suspected of a certain class of crime -- is the real news here. You fucking traitors.

Much hatred,
Meredith

(I mean, seriously. The thing that's really fucking terrifying about this little maneuver is, how do you appeal on Constitutional grounds a decision that's made in a secret court where you don't even get told the evidence against you? Appeals happen because of procedural errors in the lower courts or inconsistencies in the law, but when both the laws in question (see Gilmore v. Gonzalez) and the court's operation and decisions are sequestered away from the public, there is no way to challenge these decisions, full stop, because you are not given anything that you can challenge.)

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

You realize that the whole point is that the US claims universal jurisdiction, right?

Asylum only applies to countries that can defend the people seeking shelter.

[bigby.livejournal.com]

But they need the local intel to FIND your person. The game is in being more anoying to find than to let keep going.