Invertebrates scrap Habeas Corpus
2006-09-28 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearSenate gives final approval to detainee bill - Yahoo! News![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ravan [here], filkertom [here], kyburg [here], and Wil Wheaton
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said the right to challenge one's detention was fundamental in American law, and the Supreme Court would reject the plan if it were stripped.Additional comments by
"This is wrong. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American," said Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's top Democrat. He said it was intended to choke off access to Guantanamo to "ensure that the Bush-Cheney administration will never again be embarrassed by a United States Supreme Court decision reviewing its unlawful abuses of power."
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"This bill gives an administration that lobbied for torture exactly what it wanted," said Sen. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat.
ravan [here], filkertom [here], kyburg [here], and Wil Wheaton