December 11, 2006
LINCOLN LAUGHS:
Jose, victim of a sinister new America (Andrew Sullivan, 12/11/06, Sunday Times of London)
The basic principle of Anglo-American liberty for several hundred years has been habeas corpus — the notion that the government cannot detain a citizen without charging him with crimes that can be brought before a court and a jury of his peers. It is the keystone of any notion of a free society. For the first time in the history of the United States, it has been indefinitely suspended, and Padilla is the proof.
Well, now we know what Jose converted to in prison this time.... Posted by Orrin Judd at December 11, 2006 8:04 AM
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ex parte Quirin, the Nazi submarine commando case.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/quirin.html
Note that one of the captured war criminals, Haupt, may have been an American citizen. The Court never reached this issue because it didn't make a difference.
Posted by: Lou Gots at December 11, 2006 8:44 AMit has been indefinitely suspended
I wasn't aware that Abe put an expiration date on his decrees. How Tolerant of him. I would've thought they were "for the duration."
Once again Homosexualist Andrew Sullivan demonstrates that he thinks we all inhabit his little self-indulgent fantasy world, one whose history changes at his slightest whim or to accomodate his ignorance.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 11, 2006 9:38 AMLou Gots:
I remember reading that one of the Detroit papers said about that case that the perpetrators ought to lined up against a wall and shot.
Posted by: Matt Murphy at December 11, 2006 5:31 PMAndrew has been making a lot of mistakes lately.
At NRO, David Frum has a neat takedown regarding Andrew's missteps on a bill passed by Parliament in 1867 regarding the franchise. He misstated the scope of the bill, the facts involved, and claimed the wrong guy (Disraeli) was PM at the time.
I haven't read anything by Sullivan in almost two years. He reminds me more and more of David Brock with his sudden urge to please a different audience.
Posted by: jim hamlen at December 11, 2006 11:33 PM