Also one case does not make Paul right at all. The claims by Paul and others like him is that these laws would result in a loss of our liberty and not just the random single case that is to be disputed of the law being improperly applied.
Again that is why we have Courts and other checks and balances. Any law can be abused even if they are Constitutional or not.
You convienently forget that, in the case of Padilla, he was denied access to the courts based on the Patriot Act. There was no abuse of the law.
You also ignore the fact that the current legislation further codifies this into the law. A detainee (i.e. a person the President has determined is a threat) has NO recourse to the judicial system whatsoever!
You’re right. This is a paultard tempest in a teapot to make their conspiracy theories seem less nutty.
Here is Marco Rubio’s letter explaining his vote for the NDAA.
http://government.brevardtimes.com/2011/12/senator-marco-rubio-defends-ndaa.html
Jim Demint also voted for this, along with every other conservative Republican Senator. The only ones that didn’t were Rand Paul and Mark Kirk (what does that tell you?)