Posted on 06/26/2002 11:08:12 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A U.S. law authorizing the State Department to designate groups as "terrorist" and which allows those who support them to be prosecuted has been declared unconstitutional by a federal judge, throwing U.S. anti-terrorism strategies into disarray.
A U.S. official who has been dealing with the issue said yesterday there will be "serious problems" if the decision stands on appeal. The U.S. government could no longer use the existing law to prosecute those who give "material support" to groups on the list such as Hamas, al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.
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The Honorable Judge Robert M. Takasugi
Jackie Robinson, the Brooklyn Dodger great who helped integrate our country through baseball, said that "the right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time." No person has taken this issue to heart more than our hero, mentor and friend, the Honorable Robert M. Takasugi.
At the age of twelve, Robert M. Takasugi was among the 130,000 residents of Japanese descent who were interned in concentration camps throughout the western United States.
Describing the ordeal as "an education to be fair" and one of many challenges he faced, Takasugi received a degree from UCLA and joined the US Army. His commitment to equal justice brought him to law school, where Takasugi graduated in the top 5% of his class at USC and took to the streets of East Los Angeles, representing many of the sixties' civil rights protestors.
After serving on the Municipal and Superior Courts of Los Angeles, Judge Takasugi became the first Japanese American appointed to the federal bench in 1976.
As both a district court judge for a quarter century and an invitee of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Takasugi's work has consistently been marked by a high degree of integrity and a commitment to equal access to justice.
Judge Takasugi has authored important opinions and has been involved with ground breaking cases such as:
Bouman v. Pitchess (court trial finding discrimination against female sheriffs in sergeant promotional exam);
Lyons v. City of Los Angeles (issuing a preliminary injunction against LAPD for its use of choke holds);
Colorado River Indian Tribes v. Marsh (environmental protection action by Native Americans against federal and state governments);
Asian American Business Group v. City of Pomona (finding unconstitutional the city 's ordinance requiring all business signs be partially in English);
People for Community Empowerment v. City of Long Beach (questioning the constitutionality of the city's public-gathering permit process);
Weiner v. FBI (releasing FBI documents under FOIA related to the politically motivated surveillance of John Lennon);
Gonzales v. McEuen (due process for high school students facing expulsion); and
US v. Delorean (high profile criminal drug case against auto maker including allegations of evidence held by publisher Larry Flynt).
But perhaps Judge Takasugi's greatest contributions have come outside the courtroom, as a teacher, mentor and role model to thousands of law students and attorneys.
I'm beginning to seriously worry about the possibility of a Constitutional crisis if this sort of thing keeps up. There's a point past which these leftists' rulings will literally put the nation itself in serious jeopardy, and if that line is crossed, the executive branch will be forced to do something.
Father err ahh Homeland Security was their first step also wasn't it ?........
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(Hey, might as well address President Bush right here; I'm convinced somebody at the WH keeps a finger on the pulse of conservatives by watching FR.)
Nah, they just declared it irrelavent.
Exactly. Fairness involves trades, war involves untradable jurisdictions.
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