That funny old document
Sep. 30th, 2006 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lederhosenArticle 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution, paragraphs 2 and 3:
Any questions? (Note that although I didn't point it out yesterday, that bill also has quite a lot to say about restricting habeas corpus.)
Meanwhile, Democrats Abroad sent me this today:
"'Democrats frame the election as a referendum on President Bush and his failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, the environment, tax benefits for the rich, immigration, education, health care and all the rest.' Let’s vote no! And let’s vote no on torture, now that, as Wednesday Wire pundit John McQueen observes, 'Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and John Warner, all Republicans, caved' on opposing it."
I was already quite prepared to vote against W for those very reasons... but am I right in suspecting that on the Iraq and torture fronts, the Democrats are being much less vocal to the folks at home than they are to those of us living overseas?
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed...
Any questions? (Note that although I didn't point it out yesterday, that bill also has quite a lot to say about restricting habeas corpus.)
Meanwhile, Democrats Abroad sent me this today:
"'Democrats frame the election as a referendum on President Bush and his failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, the environment, tax benefits for the rich, immigration, education, health care and all the rest.' Let’s vote no! And let’s vote no on torture, now that, as Wednesday Wire pundit John McQueen observes, 'Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham, and John Warner, all Republicans, caved' on opposing it."
I was already quite prepared to vote against W for those very reasons... but am I right in suspecting that on the Iraq and torture fronts, the Democrats are being much less vocal to the folks at home than they are to those of us living overseas?
