Letters to the Editor
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If not now, when? If not through the ASC & ADAB then how?
If, as seems likely, Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton doesn't insert habeas restoration provisos into the Annual Defense Authorisation Bill, are there other upcoming Bills into which such restoration could be attached? Presumably it would have to be a key appropriations/ authorisation Bill that House Republicans are so keen to pass, that Bush wouldn't exercise his veto.
As I understand it, the only other alternative, which Skelton apparently prefers, is to make habeas restoration a piece of stand-alone legislation. Since Bush would almost certainly veto that, what are the chances the Democrats could pick up enough Republican votes to achieve a veto-proof majority? Since I'm guessing they're nowball-in-hellish, what, if anything, are the other options for dismantling the despicable MCA & restoring habeas?