Archive for the 'Due Process' Category
27 Aug
The Department of Defense announced in a press relase dated August 26, 2008, “the transfer of two detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Algeria”:
No. 721-08
August 26, 2008
Detainee Transfer Announced
The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of two detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Algeria. These detainees were determined to be eligible for transfer following [...]
Posted in Article VI, Bush Tyranny, Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, Torture by: HJ
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07 Jul
Natural Rights Are Universal
There is a grave misconception about the headwaters source of liberty presently being tossed around by those who defend the obscene travesty that is the netherworld condition the detainees from the Global War On Terror (GWOT) have been illegitimately forced into. Our Natural Rights are NOT defined by The Constitution. [...]
Posted in Compromised, ConFounders, ContemporaryCons, Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, Relativist-Right, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: HJ
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29 Jun
Conservatives used to possess honour, standing their ground come hell or high water, upon the firm foundations of their immutable principles. Conservatism, as a political theory, has become noxiously contaminated over the last two plus decades. This is attributable to the Republican Party’s ends-testing for only electoral wins, which fomented The Big Three-Ring [...]
Posted in Compromised, ContemporaryCons, Due Process, FISA, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, Relativist-Right, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: AS
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18 Jun
In the aftermath of Boumediene v. Bush, the rampant mendacity of the Bush Administration continues ever onwards. BuShills spew half-truths, mistruths and outright lies. These then get ejaculated into right-sided echo-chambers; and there within the closets of contemporary conservatism, mutual stroking rituals begin in earnest, as wee-willy-wankers’ circle-jerking spew enhancement.
The jerkin’ lil gherkins [...]
Posted in BiPolar Polity, Compromised, ContemporaryCons, Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, Relativist-Right, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: PLSeaM
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18 Jun
John Choon Yoo’s June 17, 2008 Wall Street Journal Op/Ed vehemently oppositional to the Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush, “The Supreme Court Goes to War“, is not surprising for its content. The number of individuals who exist on the right-side of the Bipolar Political divide that quote it, and the standard formula [...]
Posted in BiPolar Polity, Comedic Relief, Compromised, ContemporaryCons, Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, Relativist-Right, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: PLSeaM
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17 Jun
Utah’s very own Poster-Boy for Term Limits, Senator Orrin Hatch (R), is a master prestidigitator. He is also an equivocating partisan relativist conservative pretender, or to restate it succinctly, a new-righty. His statement about Boumediene v. Bush, made immediately after Senator Feinstein’s remarks follow this short commentary.
Hatch is another assward ho contemporary conservative, when it [...]
Posted in ContemporaryCons, Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, Relativist-Right, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: HJ
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17 Jun
Remarks about Habeas Corpus and Boumediene v. Bush made by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on the Senate floor, June 12, 2008.
Congressional Record: June 12, 2008 (Senate)
DOCID:cr12jn08-150cr12jn08-150; Pages S5573-S5586
Mrs. Feinstein: I thank the Chair.
This morning, the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional the portion of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which denied habeas corpus rights [...]
Posted in Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, ProgressiveLibs, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: HJ
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17 Jun
The June 12, 2008 statement made by Senator Patrick Leahy(D-VT) about habeas corpus after the Supreme Court Decision in Boumediene v. Bush had be published.
Congressional Record: June 12, 2008 (Senate)
DOCID:cr12jn08-147; Pages S5539-S5564
Habeas Corpus
Mr. Leahy: Mr. President, while I was chairing a Judiciary Committee meeting today, I received notice of the Supreme Court’s ruling this morning [...]
Posted in Due Process, Habeas Corpus, Liberty, Original Intent, ProgressiveLibs, SCOTUS Interrupt Us by: HJ
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13 Mar
G.W. Bush came out swinging at House Democrats today, using his tired and worn out black and white routine of it’s either his way or the bomb bay; as he artfully danced with the truth:
“…the House bill could reopen dangerous intelligence gaps by putting in place a cumbersome court approval process that would make it [...]
Posted in BiPolar Polity, Compromised, ContemporaryCons, Due Process, Fourth Amendment, Original Intent, Relativist-Right by: HJ
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28 Feb
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison(R-TX), speaking during the Impeachment Trial of President William Jefferson Clinton explaining why the Democrats were wrong not voting for a conviction:
Would the President’s defenders forgive a school teacher who molests a student, simply because the teacher’s classes are popular and his students all go on to college? Should we ignore the [...]
Posted in BiPolar Polity, Compromised, ContemporaryCons, Due Process, Relativist-Right by: AS
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