{"id":590,"date":"2002-06-16T23:12:31","date_gmt":"2002-06-17T07:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/16\/more-constitutional-fun\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T17:05:13","slug":"more-constitutional-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/16\/more-constitutional-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"More constitutional fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16071,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nandotimes.com\\\/nation\\\/story\\\/433229p-3465388c.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16072,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/archive\\\/2002_06_09_bloggera.html#77743022&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130404090939\\\/http:\\\/\\\/thismodernworld.com\\\/weblog\\\/archive\\\/2002_06_09_bloggera.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:53:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:53:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Following up on <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/this_is_where_i.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: This is where it starts\">a previous post<\/a>, more troubling news about the blatantly unconstitutional detention of Jose Padilla:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Justice Department, making its case in a closed meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the United States can hold Padilla <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandotimes.com\/nation\/story\/433229p-3465388c.html\" title=\"Nando Times: Padilla won't go before military tribunal, feds say\">until President Bush decides the war against terrorism is over<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  In the committee briefing Thursday, government officials said that previous court cases, including a 1942 Supreme Court case, show that U.S. citizens can qualify as &#8216;enemy combatants&#8217; &#8212; the legal term the Justice Department argues allows a person to be held without trial&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  The Justice Department told the committee that the executive branch alone has the power to decide when a person qualifies as a combatant, an administration official said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I certainly don&#8217;t want to have a  terrorist set off a &#8220;dirty bomb&#8221; &#8212; or any other type of bomb &#8212; anywhere. However, if there&#8217;s truly enough evidence to arrest Padilla, than he should be arrested and given a trial. Instead, however, an American citizen is being detained indefinitely in a blatantly unconstitutional move.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thismodernworld.com\/weblog\/archive\/2002_06_09_bloggera.html#77743022\" title=\"This Modern World: This should send a chill down your spine\">Tom Tomorrow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  There you have it, kids. By executive fiat, the Constitutional protections of American citizens are now officially contingent upon the whims of the President. So much for a nation of &#8216;laws, not men.&#8217; I don&#8217;t care what your politics are. If you don&#8217;t find this deeply disturbing&#8230;well, I really don&#8217;t know what to say.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By executive fiat, the Constitutional protections of American citizens are now officially contingent upon the whims of the President. So much for a nation of &#8216;laws, not men.&#8217; I don&#8217;t care what your politics are. If you don&#8217;t find this deeply disturbing&#8230;well, I really don&#8217;t know what to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}