Nancy Pelosi Statement on Court’s Detainee Decisions
House Democaratic leader Nancy Pelosi today released the following statement on the Supreme Court decisons with respect to the rights of detainees and Bush-defined “enemy combatants.”
The Supreme Court’s decisions in the Hamdi case and the case involving the Guantanamo detainees are triumphs for the rule of law. The notion that the President has the unchallengeable authority to define the circumstances of a person’s detention, especially that of a United States citizen, is contrary to our nation’s history and experience.
“The right to counsel and the right to contest government actions in court are among our most cherished liberties. We cannot, and we must not, allow our civil liberties contained in the Constitution to become a casualty in the war on terrorism. “The Supreme Court’s decisions today are a timely reminder of the constant need to evaluate actions taken in the name of national security, no matter how well-intentioned those actions may be.”
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June 29th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Can you believe the abject stupidity of these people? How can they so consistently side with the interests of our enemies, yet still demand that they be called patriotic? How far backwards are they capable of bending, in their grossly misguided efforts to defend the very animals who would slit all our our throats without even blinking? Who are these people?