To: mugs99
This provision of the Constitution has zilch to do with the Executive Branch. It's enumerating the powers of Congress.
33 posted on
01/19/2007 12:01:03 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: AnAmericanMother
This provision of the Constitution has zilch to do with the Executive Branch. It's enumerating the powers of Congress.
Gonzalez was speaking about the executive branch...not Congress.
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39 posted on
01/19/2007 12:09:47 PM PST by
mugs99
(Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
To: AnAmericanMother
exactly. And it also means that the executive branch has no authority to remove the habeus corpus provisions of the law.
When Lincoln tried to suspend habeus corpus in 1862, SCOTUS overruled him and said that the suspension clause applied to Congress, because only congress can suspend that fundamental liberty
72 posted on
01/19/2007 6:13:52 PM PST by
ChurtleDawg
(kill em all)
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