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Preventing a judicial ruling on the power to imprison without charges

Just as the Bush administration did with the case of Jose Padilla, the Obama DOJ convinces the Supreme Court not to rule on a key constitutional issue.
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  • Saturday, March 7, 2009 07:12 AM

    The Future

    We really needed this ruling from SCOTUS. I'm don't believe that the Obama adminstration would ever make use of this policy the way Bush did but what about future Presidents? Another Bush or worse, a Huey Long as President and we will be right back in the nightmare.

    Of course, with the Court we presently have it's not certain we would have gotten the ruling we would want.

    —JerryB Read JerryB's other letters

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