Showing posts with label A I Scalia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A I Scalia. Show all posts
Friday, June 27, 2008
Hooray for hate speech!
So, AI and AA, you foreign-born preservers of True Americanism, was there really much danger here? Did poor McCain have to go up to the North Vietnadians and tell them how to run their own little fruity commissions to save Steyn from the ratmeat dungeon? I wonder what the Buckley hole washers at NRO are saying now, but just. can't. click. n r online.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Explaining Law 101 to JJ
Habeas corpus is the right to have the lawfulness of one’s detention tested before a judge. It is enshrined in the Suspension Clause (Art. I, Sec. 9) of the Constitution — the compact between the American people and the government they created — in order to protect Americans from arbitrary arrest and adhesive conditions of confinement. As a judicial remedy, it extends only where the federal courts have jurisdiction. Thus, as Justice Scalia elaborated (joined in dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito), habeas has never been thought to extend to the benefit of aliens outside the United States — much less those who are at war with the United States, and less still those who wage such a war by mass-murdering civilians, using women and children as human shields, and perpetrating other depravities that flout the laws of civilized warfare. Ah, mais non, mais non, says JJ -- we must bow to the ACLU on this. Whatever, dude.
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