Posted on 11/09/2008 10:23:31 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice.
During his campaign, Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and has said generally that the U.S. legal system is equipped to handle the detainees. But he has offered few details on what he planned to do once the facility is closed.
Under plans being put together in Obama's camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.
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Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor and Obama legal adviser, said discussions about plans for Guantanamo had been "theoretical" before the election but would quickly become very focused because closing the prison is a top priority. Bringing the detainees to the United States will be controversial, he said, but could be accomplished.
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Great, you put this together with Ayers’s wish to abolish prisons and American life won’t be dull at all.
“some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts”
I think it is fair that those who are released should be freed in areas that voted most heavily for Obama. The Gitmo boys will feel right at home there.
Does this mean he’s going to offer them cabinet posts?
It’s sick.
Really, really sick.
Obama is going to bring about our destruction
This reminds me of Bush I giving asylum to Gulf War I defectors. Unfortunately for what I remember 187 people were killed when six Iraqi defectors participated in the bombing using McVeigh as the lilly white patsy that the Iraqis needed.
And of course Clinton never wanted to fightIraq so he lied, there was no middle Eastern involvement.
Read Jayan Davis’ THE THIRD TERRORIST if you doubt this conclusion. Boxes of depositions state McVeigh and Nichols were involved with Iraqi ex-soldiers in OKC exist but the MSM never bought it, so you don’t know it nor would you believe it.
Obama’s “justice” department will let them go, and they can’t go back to their original countries, too dangerous so they’ll be let out in a town near you and me.
He's going to community organize them so they change their ways. Of course, they'll have to do 100 hours of community service just like everyone else - unless they claim it's racism. Then they'll get a free pass.
All this left wing stuff is an absurd waste of time. It doesn’t work and never was necessary.
Freed and then welcomed into the Chicago mob.
Obama can give them all the Medal of Ayers.
Obama is going to jam everything down the American public’s throat (primarily the 46% that voted against him) right up front, in the first few months of his Administration. And I mean everything, mational healthcare, Guantanamo, stem cell research, abortion rights, lift Cuba embargo, start taking troops out of Iraq, kiss up to Iran and Russia, new energy policy (no drilling, no nuclear, no coal), Union open ballots, legalize illegal immigrants, you name it, he’s going to do it, and all at once in his first year in office.
It’s called getting the controversial issues out of the way and over early in the Admin so as to be able to settle down to more mundane matters during the rest of the regime and hope that the public forgets all the pain of the first year. This is what new Admins do. They frontload the bad news. So be prepared for the onslaught. It’s coming and it’s coming fast. Mark my words.
oops, mational healthcare = national healthcare above. Typo.
In the immortal words of Bob Grant, “It’s sick, and getting sicker”
It’s only the tip of the Obama iceberg. And the United States is on a ship called Titanic
If the prestige of the ivy league could be sullied permenatly, we would be well on our way of throwing off the burden of the elite.
Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, is the author of the forthcoming book “The Invisible Constitution” (Oxford Press).
Between the lines of our parchment Constitution, renowned legal scholar Laurence Tribe argues, there is an “invisible Constitution.” Tribe purports that some of our most cherished and widely held beliefs about our constitutional rights are not even included in the written document. How does this “invisible Constitution” impact the central constitutional debates of our time from gun control to abortion to wire-tapping? How has this framework for reading the Constitution evolved, and how does it work? Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School discusses how we interpret our country’s most important document.
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Tribe is noted for his extensive support of liberal legal causes. He has argued many high-profile cases, including one for Al Gore during the disputed U.S. presidential election, 2000.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Tribe’s client in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, holding that a Georgia state law criminalizing sodomy, as applied to consensual acts between persons of the same sex, did not violate fundamental liberties under the principle of substantive due process. However, he was vindicated in 2003, when the Supreme Court overruled Bowers in Lawrence v. Texas. He wrote the ACLU’s amicus curiae brief supporting Lawrence, who was represented by Lambda Legal.
Tribe was considered a potential Supreme Court nominee until he testified against Robert Bork, making lasting enemies in the U.S. Senate (although he supported Anthony Kennedy who was eventually appointed in Bork’s place). His protege, Kathleen Sullivan, is now thought of by many as a potential Court nominee if a Democrat takes the White House; he has called her “the most extraordinary student I had ever had.”[1] Tribe continues to strongly support liberal political causes. He is one of the co-founders of the liberal American Constitution Society, the law and policy organization formed to counter the conservative and libertarian Federalist Society.
He is actively supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama, and describes Obama as “the best student I ever had.” Alongside the University of Chicago’s Cass Sunstein, Tribe serves as judicial adviser to Obama’s campaign.
Plagerist...
The October 4, 2004 issue of the Weekly Standard, a conservative political magazine, reported that a passage in Tribe’s 1985 work, God Save This Honorable Court, is identical to a passage in Justices and Presidents, a 1974 book by Henry J. Abraham, a University of Virginia political scientist. On April 13, 2005, Harvard’s President Lawrence Summers and Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan released a statement that Tribe’s admitted failure to provide appropriate attribution was a “significant lapse in proper academic practice,” but that they regarded the error as “the product of inadvertence rather than intentionality.”
Tribe has two children, Mark and Kerry, who are both internationally-recognized incense jugglers.
What are ‘incense jugglers’?!
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Physicist: Laurence Tribe law paper, edited by Barack Obama, was bad physics
Harvard law Professor Laurence Tribe argued, in “Curvature of Constitutional Space,” that, much as the newer theories of quantum physics override Newtonian physics, constitutional law has moved beyond strict constructionism toward the view that the Constitution is a relativistic living document.
Tribe’s argument was edited by Barack Obama, then editor-in-chief of the Harvard Law Review, which published the paper in November 1989. Today the paper is under challenge for its science.
Tulane Physics Professor Frank J. Tipler calls Tribe’s article “a crackpot paper.”
How many will ACORN register to vote?
pinging for later...
Tribe is nuts! But, he has many defenders who believe every word he writes!
“From our country’s most renowned scholar of constitutional law comes a book so breathtaking in its originality and wide-ranging in its scope that it will become an instant classic. To read The Invisible Constitution is to enter the mind of a brilliant thinker as he reflects upon many of the most important issues of the day.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Tribe, defended Goodwin against plagiarism
In The Invisible Constitution, Tribe argues that there is an unseen constitution—impalpable but powerful—that accompanies the parchment version. It is the visible document’s shadow, its dark matter: always there and possessing some of its key meanings and values despite its absence on the page. As Tribe illustrates, some of our most cherished and widely held beliefs about constitutional rights are not part of the written document, but can only be deduced by piecing together hints and clues from it. Moreover, some passages of the Constitution do not even hold today despite their continuing existence. Amendments may have fundamentally altered what the Constitution originally said about slavery and voting rights, yet the old provisos about each are still in the text, unrevised.
Is one of the ones who will not be convicted the one who brings a nuclear device into the United States?
These geniuses have completely buried the Federalist Papers. The elites in this country should be scribbling alone in their dank attics, or swinging from gibbets.
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