Court Challenge to New Detainee Law May Come In 'Days'
With President Bush poised to sign the White House-backed detainee treatment bill into law, groups are promising to challenge it in court "in days."If there is ever an argument with a republican and the republican says anything about values, cut them off and ask them, "you mean the value to torture?" Torture torture torture. Don't let them ever live it down.
“I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in ‘H’ that this will be found constitutional,” Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Congressional Quarterly (sub. req.). CCR represents a number of Guantanamo prisoners.
Strangely, some senators who voted for the bill weren't convinced of its constitutionality. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), who voted for the bill even after his amendment to preserve certain rights for detainees was defeated, called the proposal "patently unconstitutional on its face," The Washington Post reported. When CQ asked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who negotiated with the White House to win minor concessions on the legislation, if the bill was constitutional, he responded "I think so."
3 comments:
[putting on my ohio hat...]
but torture is sometime necessary! what if a terrorist has a ticking bomb and won't give you the deactivation codes? i know this can happen, because it happened to Jack Bauer on the tv show '24' just last week! he was able to beat an answer out the terrorist though.
[taking off my ohio hat...]
but torture has never been shown to get quality information, and the situations that you describe only happens on tv.
[putting my ohio hat back on...]
yeah, whatever, i know if i got a terrorist in a room, i'd beat the crap out of him. Bush kicks ass and aint afraid of nuthin'
Matt, you can't win an argument with an Ohio Republican, because in their mind, they always win the argument.
Shouldn't Bush *increase* aid to these Iraqi police torturers instead of taking it away?
No torturers left behind
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