Habeas Corpus Restoration

[Scott Dolan]

The bill will now move to the Senate floor.

http://pressesc.com/01181243010_judi..._habeas_corpus

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

The bill will now move to the Senate floor.

http://pressesc.com/01181243010_judi..._habeas_corpus

Do you know who the 8 were who apparently thought that habeas corpus was, oh, I don't know, quaint????
I guess that they would be the same ones who consider the Geneva Conventions' ban on torture applicable to every other nation in the world, except the United States.
One wonders how they put their hats on, so swelled with their self-importance are their heads.

[Scott Dolan]

All the Republicans on the committee, except Arlen Specter, voted against it.

So that would be:

Orrin Hatch, (R - Utah)
Charles Grassley, (R - Iowa)
Jon Kyl, (R - Arizona)
Jeff Sessions, (R - Alabama)
Lindsey Graham, (R - South Carolina)
John Cornyn, (R - Texas)
Sam Brownback, (R - Kansas)
Tom Coburn, (R - Oklahoma)

[jesus marion joseph]

For all his other faults, Arlen Spector has consistenly been opposed to the president's efforts to do away with the criminal protections afforded by the Constitution.

[Scott Dolan]

Hell, he sponsored the bill.

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

The bill will now move to the Senate floor.

http://pressesc.com/01181243010_judi..._habeas_corpus

I vote Aye.

[guy]

Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

For all his other faults, Arlen Spector has consistenly been opposed to the president's efforts to do away with the criminal protections afforded by the Constitution.

My impression (which may be inaccurate) is that before the 2006 election, Specter did a lot of talking without much action on this topic. Still, better late than never.

Guy

[Scott Dolan]

It wouldn't have done him any good at all, Guy. Frist have have shitcanned that motion before Specter ever had a chance to make it.

[Sandi22]

Spector is forever going in front of the cameras and talking long and persistantly as to how he is against something or other. Telling us, that even so, he will investigate before he votes against it, or for it, and then he does what he pretends to have been against at the outset. No one hardly even notices that he did what he said he was against in the first place, as he "investigated and looked into" the matter thourougly. Sure. Right. It's how he operates. He has to believe first impressions are lasting. It does seem to work for him.

[Scott Dolan]

I won't argue with that assessment, but how does that apply to this situation?

[Sandi22]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

I won't argue with that assessment, but how does that apply to this situation?

Not sure it even does, can't see where it would; it just brought up those thoughts about him.

[Gary Sisco]

They are not "criminal protections." They are citizen protections.