Help restore the Constitution.
By on Sep 18th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Help restore the Constitution.
Yesterday, Sens. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) reintroduced the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act as an amendment to a defense authorization bill, restoring the right of habeas corpus to detainees charged as “enemy combatants.” Firedoglake notes that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has already threatened to filibuster the bill. Call your senators (information HERE) urge them to support the legislation.
UPDATE: OpenLeft has more.
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Where is the thread regarding Hill’reh’s Healthcare Program?
September 18th, 2007 at 3:16 pmGraham is another Christofacist.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:17 pmWhere is the thread regarding Hill’reh’s Healthcare Program?
Comment by Jason M. Hendler
Go down the concourse to the mensroom, third stall from the right wall as you go in.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:21 pmBring cash.
Comment by Jason M. Hendler — September 18, 2007 @ 3:16 pm
Well, seeing as it’s clearly NOT here, it’s safe to say, you’re completely lost, AGAIN.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:22 pmI let Gordon Smith’s office know how I feel about this, but I don’t have a lot of hope he’ll choose the correct side.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:22 pmWell, seeing as it’s clearly NOT here, it’s safe to say, you’re completely lost, AGAIN.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — September 18, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
Sometimes the elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor, TROS.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:23 pmComment by gummitch — September 18, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
But it never fails to run to the basement, does it?
September 18th, 2007 at 3:25 pmwhy do the conservatives hate the constitution!??!
September 18th, 2007 at 3:26 pmHow dare a Senator…someone who was elected by the people to represent them…oppose the restoration of Habeas Corpus.
Without Habeas Corpus, the rest of the Constitution is optional. It’s unconscionable that we ever let ourselves lose such a fundamental right…to oppose restoring it is unforgivable.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:28 pmI don’t think they hate it. It’s just not convenient enough, and the way to do that is go around checks and balances and go against the very thing they’re elected to uphold. I’m sure in their minds they feel they’re doing the right thing, no matter how outrageously stupid, and fundamentally un-American it is.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:29 pmGraham is just mad because he has a girls name.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:32 pmLet him filibuster. Let him justify destroying habeas after 800 years. I’d like to see how he uses his legal skills to go down that road.
What an anti-America fu*kwad.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:32 pmhmmm any trolls care to defend this one? Oh wait… let me try!
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Habeas Corpus is a pre-9/11 mentality!! the constitution is outdated its just a sheet of paper!
only islamofacist terrorist supporters want habeas corpus
there how was that? I need a shower
September 18th, 2007 at 3:33 pmWow…with the notable exception of that idiot Hendler trying (unsuccessfully) to derail the thread early on, this thread is 100% troll-free!
I guess even the trolls are smarter than Graham on this issue…
September 18th, 2007 at 3:37 pmWhat is Sen. Graham afraid of? We are at our strongest when we allow the judicial system to work for everyone.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:44 pmI need some names…..who is being denied……where are they and what were they caught doing?
September 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pmwhere are they and what were they caught doing?
Comment by Spankytheyankee — September 18, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Sorry, Spank, but it’s all top-top secret and no one is allowed to know anything, or even ask.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:52 pmIt’s not about defending terrorists. This is about defending innocent people ACCUSED of being terrorists.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:05 pmThats why NAMES are important………….. every case is different. To my knowledge there is NO American citizen being held by the US, here or abroad that has not received due process. If there is, who what where….
I was just thumbing through Al Qieda’s hand book and surprisingly they have no provisions for habeas corpus……..humm no court system at all…………hummmmmmmmm no known incarceration facility’s either…………whats up with that?
September 18th, 2007 at 4:20 pm“I was just thumbing througth Al Qieda’s hand book and surprisingly they have no provisions for habeas corpus…”
Well, Spankytheyankee, guess that means that the Great United States of America, Beacon of Liberty and Justice to the whole free world, is no better than a bunch of terrorists living in caves on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. Might be why we haven’t gone in and cleaned their clocks…instead we’re busy showing the world we’re as much a danger to world security as Al Qaida.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:27 pmJer, Jer, Jer…….let me guess….you would rather be held by Al Qaida in Pakistan than the US government in an island paradise.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:32 pmHey, be us corpses.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:33 pmFat chance of that.
September 18th, 2007 at 4:35 pmMy “senators” are Senators Bombast(R) and Roberts(R) of Kansas.
Neither can read much less understand the Constitution.
Pass nothing, absolutely nothing until habeas corpus is restored. No budgets, no anything! Then let all eyes fall on Graham!!! Any testoserone left in the big tent? Or will all stand silent like Kerry while someone exercising his first amendment rights is tasered for it?
September 18th, 2007 at 8:52 pmLindsay Graham, the GOP and the neocons just don’t get it. We are fed up with their corrupt shit. If Lindsay keeps this shit up he will certainly be hitting the bricks come next election.
So long Lindsay.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:58 pmWhere does it say in the Constitution, that Congress can eliminate basic Amendments without first letting the People decide?
How can Congress restore that which can not be removed without the consent of the governed?
September 19th, 2007 at 1:55 amtesting123
September 19th, 2007 at 2:40 amIf we really want to restore the constitution, it looks like electing Ron Paul is the best way.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:53 amI am so very sorry to report that the Constitution passed away on January 20th, 2005. It was buried in a ceremony behind the Vice President’s residence after being creamated. A wake was held in the oval office afterward attended by all major media personnel and members of the Democratic and Republican leadership as well as most DC lobbying firms.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:40 am