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At Last - A Case of Judicial SanityOn A Personal NoteBush Administration Wins Appeal on Padilla
In a victory for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court ruled Friday that the government can continue to hold indefinitely an American accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb."This decision is fully in line with long-standing precedent where US citizens who had been engaged as enemy combatants in WW-I and WW-II were held as POW's without any access or recourse to the civilian judicial system. Any other outcome would also be insane from the viewpoint of national security.
"The exceedingly important question before us is whether the President of the United States possesses the authority to detain militarily a citizen of this country who is closely associated with al-Qaida, an entity with which the United States is at war," Judge J. Michael Luttig wrote. "We conclude that the President does possess such authority."This decision also happens to highlight a judge who may go to SCOTUS. This would be a welcome addition to them:
Luttig, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the U.S. Supreme Court, was joined in his opinion by Judges M. Blane Michael and William B. Traxler Jr.
I'm up in South Dakota right now for my birthday weekend, so expect blogging to be light. I'm also going to be helping my grandmother move today, so there's that. However, fear not: the drive for our local Sheriff's Relief...Thune Comments on RINO Compromise
Bush Picks RobertsSen. John Thune, (R-SD)issued the following comment on yesterdays RINO-Donk "Compromise" deal:
?I?m happy to see that three of the President?s judicial nominees will receive an up or down vote. However, I still believe that all judicial nominees with majority support deserve the fairness of an up or down vote on the Senate floor.?Nothing there the Chief would disagree with. We did well to get Thune elected instead of that weasel Daschle!
More detailed MSM spiel on this here in the Argus.
John Roberts will be up for Chief Justice. This was a move widely expected in the last 24 hours. Todd Zywixki over at Volokh wonders what the status of Sandra Day O'Connor is. It's a good question....BRAC Blogging
Excerpt from the Sept. 4, 2005 edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch:GOING THE EXTRA MILE?; YOU CAN TAKE BRAC OUT OF POLITICS, BUT . . . Isn't BRAC supposed to be immune from political influence? Yes, the powers-that-be did take the...Rove Going to North Dakota
This is from The Hill: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove is planning to travel to North Dakota later this month to rally GOP activists and, Republicans hope, persuade Gov. John Hoeven (R) to challenge Sen. Kent Conrad...Pork Fails to Stop Floodwater; Government Still Not Big Enough
Maybe this is something that the Louisiana voters can ask their delegation about: Army's engineers spent millions on Louisiana projects labeled as pork. Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers...Rathergate
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