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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:02 AM Original message |
I'm curious - what would happen if the Torture Bill gets overturned... |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. I disagree with your SCOTUS count...no way Fat Tony lets the MCA stand |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Well perhaps our country might not turn them in |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:29 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. All Chimpy has to do is not leave the country, and really, |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:35 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I'm more of a Congress Geek |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Ohh...now we have to fight. The torture stopped after SCOTUS ruled in |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:43 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Yes but what about the torture that occured before the law |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 09:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. That wasn't ruled unconstitutional until Hamdan... |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 10:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. This gets complicated... |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 10:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. But that's where I'm confused |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 10:27 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Well, we've got two different paradigms...pre-Hamdan and post-MCA |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Let's see if I can explain it through another example... |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
21. There are Republicans who want us out. Does that mean they're liberals? |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
13. So the Nazis could have "protected their own?" |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 11:20 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. No, the Nazis couldn't have protected their own... |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 12:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Not necessarily... |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 10:16 AM Response to Original message |
9. The law has a prohibition on judicial review - of the constitutionality. |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 10:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. The standing question is by far the biggest mountain to climb... |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Agreed. |
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FrenchieCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
18. It needs to be overturned ...... |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:57 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. SCOTUS is our only hope...we can't win enough seats to override a veto. |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:58 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. If we could veto it or filibuster it.... |
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MrCoffee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 03:06 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Nothing will ever change that fact, but a new law could stop it... |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yes, it would be serious. |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 02:52 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Executive Power and Habeous Corpus. |
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Justice Is Comin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 03:14 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Yep, the Habeas suspension will never be solidified precedent case law. |
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