To: lowbridge
Not surprised it’s come to this.
Major difference is Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus, an Article I power, because Congress was not in session in April, 1861 and copperheads were burning down railroad bridges in Baltimore to keep Union troops from reaching Washington.
What’s Obama’s emergency?
10 posted on
01/26/2013 9:21:04 AM PST by
kjo
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To: kjo
What’s Obama’s emergency? Getting his full communists dictatorship in force with him as King.
To: kjo
They also conveniently forget that the 5th Amendment which applies to Habeaus Corpus has this clause:...except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger..
20 posted on
01/26/2013 9:30:46 AM PST by
mnehring
To: kjo
24 posted on
01/26/2013 9:34:10 AM PST by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: kjo
Obama’s emergency is the ticking clock.
49 posted on
01/26/2013 12:07:02 PM PST by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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