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To: lentulusgracchus
Pettifogging lawyer-talk.

The same kind of talk you claim justifies unilateral secession.

504 posted on 04/20/2010 4:43:16 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
[Me] Pettifogging lawyer-talk.

[You, pettifogging] The same kind of talk you claim justifies unilateral secession.

Nice try at misdirection, Al. "Oh, look -- there goes ManBearPig!!"

You don't even have a quote or a line of the Constitution on which to base your airy assertion that the President has the power to suspend habeas corpus, and yet here you are. That's pettifogging -- and "living Constitution" b.s., rich and smelly.

The power to suspend is located in Article I, which is about the powers of Congress. It is likewise a Congressional power -- or will you claim it now for a federal district judge? You want it up in the air -- how about I suspend your "corpus"? Let's all just take some initiative here and go around suspending habeas all over the place, because Non-Sequitur claims that the Framers forgot to forbid the practice to presidents, judges, enterprising ambulance-chasers and private citizens.

575 posted on 04/20/2010 11:27:26 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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