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Turning It Inside Out
There's some fallout from the Supreme Court's Guantanamo ruling on Habeas you should know about. It relates to the President's domestic propaganda program. The DoD emails showed military analysts were discussing in 2006 the partican goal of winning the White House in 2008.
As background, there is a Congressional option to enforce the law against Addington and others working for the President. Earlier this week, despite the GOP partisan effort to keep the President above the law, we suggested an option for Congress: Write rules, using the Constitutional provision granting to Congress the exclusive power to make rules related to cases in the District, expressly regulate all US federal workers. This suggestion was promptely met with claims it was an unworkable, incoherent, and kee jerk reaction.
Yet, look what the GOP propagandists, through the military analyst program, appear to be doing to do just that: But with a GOP twist: Induce Congress to make rules requring you to prove, during a Habeas rule, proving you're innocent before being released from jail.
While some claimed the Constitutional leverag Congress had to make rules regulating the President was "a knee jerk" reaction, the otherside of the coin is the silence on Congress regulating you.
From The Week:
Congress can still step in an minimize the dmage from this reckless ruling, said Andrew McCarthy in National Review Online. The SUpreme Court may have handed the fate of the detainees to federal courts, but "it is Congress than enacts rules of procedure and evidence."
Building on existing law governing pretrial detention in criminal cases, Congress can order Federal judges to grant the government a presumption in favor of detention, unless a detainee can prove "beyond a reasonable doubt that he was not an enemy combatant."
The GOP would use the very thing we were told was unworkable and a knee jerk reaction: Making rules forcing you to prove you are innocent. That turns the Constitution upside down. Of course it's outrageous, and the GOP propaganda continues.
Comments (1)
dude. proofread.
June 28, 2008 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
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