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Does the "writ of Wesayso" trump the writ of Habeas Corpus?
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Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:55:47 GMT
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The Bush administration wants the power to imprison anyone (US citizen or not),
anywhere (whether taken from US soil or not, whether held on US soil or not),
anytime, for an indefinate duration, without access to counsel, without even
being charged with anything and wants to deny that the writ of Habeas Corpus
applies to their imprisonment... as long as they designate that person as an
"enemy combatant", which they can do for any reason, or no reason at all.
They want judges to dismiss any appeals to Habeas Corpus as "second guessing"
them, which they do not wish to allow, since they apparently consider themselves
infallible...
Today's print WSJ had an op ed piece by Timothy Lynch of Cato. He heads up the
part of Cato that was responsible for filing an Amicus Curae in the case of John
Hamdi. I can't give you a link to the online version because it's for
subscribers only, so you'll have to take my word for it being in today's paper.
Whatever else you may feel about Bush and his cronies, even if you are an
adamant supporter (which I am not), SURELY you cannot support this usurpation of
power!
I'm glad to see it make the op ed pages of a national paper, and one
characterised as "read by rock ribbed republican CEOs", at that.
here are some older background links
http://www.cato.org/dispatch/06-21-02d.html
http://www.cato.org/dailys/08-30-02.html
http://www.cato.org/pubs/legalbriefs/rumsfeld.pdf (brief filed with the
Supremes)
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