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To: Torie

Perhaps you should read the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.

Or find another country to live in.


100 posted on 09/08/2005 7:26:18 PM PDT by jackbill
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To: jackbill

SCOTUS itself has held that the Constitution is not a suicide pact.


107 posted on 09/08/2005 7:28:50 PM PDT by Torie
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Here is the story:

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 - As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers on Wednesday, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should seize control of the hurricane relief mission from the governor so that active-duty combat troops could be sent to enforce order.

For reasons of practicality and politics, officials at the Justice Department and Pentagon, and then at the White House, decided not to urge the president to take command of the effort by invoking the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in times of unrest to command active-duty forces into the states to perform law enforcement duties.

Instead, the Washington officials decided to rely on the growing number of National Guard personnel flowing into Louisiana, who were under Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco's control.

This debate over federal versus state control of the military relief mission was triggered as officials began to realize that Hurricane Katrina exposed a critical flaw in the national disaster response plans created after the Sept. 11 attacks. According to the administration's senior homeland security officials, the hurricane proved to them the failure of their plan to recognize that local police, fire and medical personnel might be incapacitated and unable to act quickly until reinforcements arrive on the scene.

http://nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09military.html?ei=5094&en=29839ee3ffe8c2ba&hp=&ex=1126238400&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1126233782-TyWdDhBZdEpX1YjGpoRFnw


157 posted on 09/08/2005 7:43:31 PM PDT by bnelson44 (Scouts Up! http://www.scouting.org/media/katrina/unithelp.html)
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