Posted on 12/14/2010 4:06:47 AM PST by Scanian
The Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives has voted 212-206 to ban the Obama administration from spending any funds to try terrorism suspects in civilian court instead of by military commissions. Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly all miffed and vexed.
Since Congress failed to pass a new budget for 2011, the House passed a continuing resolution on Dec. 8 to continue funding the government next year. Somebody on the House Appropriations Committee, to Holder's supposed shock and dismay, inserted a provision that prohibits federal funds from being used to prosecute terrorist detainees in federal criminal courts, according to Susan Crabtree writing for The Hill. When Democrat members learned about the trial provision, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer went into damage control mode. Pelosi's office did not return a call for comment, according to Crabtree.
Holder called it "an unprecedented grab of executive authority by Congress," according to Crabtree. "We have been unable to identify any parallel ... in the history of our nation in which Congress has intervened to prohibit the prosecution of particular persons or crimes," Holder opined.
It's about subject matter, venue, and funding of federal courts, Mr. Holder. The Constitution gives Congress the authority to decide on those. You can look it up.
Holder should have seen it coming after the House Armed Services Committee unanimously approved a defense authorization bill last May that banned funding to build or modify any facility inside the U.S. to house Guantánamo detainees.
Public outrage caused Holder to rethink his 2009 decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 act of war on America, and his co-conspirators in New York City, a few blocks from Ground Zero. Holder has repeatedly promised for nearly a year that he's a few weeks away...
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What did they expect??????
You have to pass the bill before you know what’s in it! LOL!
Karma!
From the Rush Limbaugh parody list.
I guess you gotta pass the bill to find out what’s in it! :-)
bfl
Homer has to learn he's not executive material
Obama had promised that all bills would be posted three days prior to voting.Had this been posted the error would have been corrected.
‘Vote for it to see what’s in it’!
The two most dangerous people in the U.S. are Obama and Holder. They are driven by a hate of the country and a complete disrespect for the people and their intelligence.
Remember-”nation of cowards” from Holder and the brief rants by Obama and his wife re their views of middle-Americans.
I would like to know who inserted that surprise clause that screwed over Holder
..showing once again that they don’t read what they vote on.
It had to have been a Dim.
I agree, perhaps somebody from NY?
Better put some ice on it, Eric.
And wait until the next Congress.
I’m no lawyer, politics aside, but Holder’s actions as Attorney General don’t impress me as someone who knows a much about the law. I certainly wouldn’t want him as my attorney.
King obuma and his little piggy Holder ain’t seen nothing yet. During Reconstruction, the Radical Republicans effectively took away President Johnson’s power as Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Then it warned the federal court not to make any rulings against the Reconstruction Acts.
If you want to see an onmipotent congress take over the country, check out Thadeus Stevens and the Republicans from 1865 to 1871.
Chill out, Eric. You can still sue Arizona, and on behalf of Muslims everywhere else.
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