Comments on: It Is Still Alive

By: I Dissent — Why Now?

I Dissent — Why Now? — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:28:16 +0000

[…] the same CNN article I linked to in my post on the recent decision on habeas corpus we have: Four justices agreed. In a sharp dissent, read in […]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:10:50 +0000

I’m writing a post on the dissenters and plan on taking them to task. You do not dispense with the “Great Writ” simply because it is inconvenient.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:49:33 +0000

Did you see what Scalia wrote in his dissent?

For his part, Scalia wrote in his dissent to the ruling that it is a “game of bait-and-switch . . . [that] plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief and will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”

He also claimed that 30 detainees who had been voluntarily released from Guantánamo by order of the Bush administration had returned to “the battlefield,” which means that in his mind even people deemed innocent in the administration’s mind are actually guilty. More at KIKO's HOUSE here: The Great Writ Survives As Liberty & Security Are Reconciled In the Age of Bush If anyone should be impeached, it should definitely be Scalia. But of course, that won't happen.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:14:20 +0000

Given the lack of action when there are thousands of dead as part of the evidence, I have little hope of seeing Congress do anything.

Only Democrats get impeached – IOKIYAR

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:23:29 +0000

“Unfortunately being an ideologue and jerk isn’t an impeachable offense.”

Actually, as Ken Starr cheerfully pointed out in one of his arguments years before he became a porn publisher, it could be; indeed, an impeachable offense is anything Congress says it is. In the founders’ era, “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” was a legal term of art meaning something akin to dereliction of duty. If being an ideologue and a jerk could be credibly argued to be a serious breach of a president’s constitutional obligations to the United States, s/he could be impeached for it.

Besides, it would be such fun to hear the charges read…

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:25:04 +0000

Unfortunately being an ideologue and jerk isn’t an impeachable offense.

The only way you can justify suspension of habeas corpus is by throwing out centuries of judicial thinking, but Scalia doesn’t have a problem with that apparently.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:49:52 +0000

it is still alive
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and it isn’t improving.

[combination of the two post titles, one at the top of the my screen, the other at the bottom]

on the whole though, one small piece of good news. finally. i’m sure it was the kittens wearing orange on jan 11 on my blog that swung this issue. 😈

seriously, i’m still agog that the vote was so close. supreme court justices can be impeached too, thank god/dess/e/s, but we will have to wait till bush is out of office [and hope that we don’t get stuck with mccain].