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To: butterdezillion
"To this day we don’t know if the orders Lakin received were lawful."
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Quite the contrary. Judge Lind ruled they were lawful. Neal Puckett concurred with Judge Lind's decision. And yesterday LTC Lakin swore under oath that he knew the orders to be lawful -- even at the time he was disobeying them.

If you still think there's any doubt, please give a legal argument. Right now you're just repeating the same old assertions with nothing but your opinions to back them up.
704 posted on 12/15/2010 11:06:25 AM PST by BigGuy22
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To: BigGuy22

Denise Lind knows that the Constitution allows Obama to “act as President”?

Seems to me that others have said that the military couldn’t decide this issue, that the military isn’t supposed to interpret the Constitution. How, then, could Denise Lind know how the Constitution applies to the situation with Barack Obama and Joe Biden? There are still pending cases for the federal judiciary to deal with this, so how can a military court decide such a thing?

This totally violates what everybody has been saying about the military not being able to interpret the Constitution. Are you saying the military court-martial system is able to interpret the Constitution?

And also, Lind’s decision was that the POTUS is irrelevant to the lawfulness of Lakin’s orders. If that precedent holds, then brigade commanders can deploy combat troops to foreign countries independently of the POTUS. All because this one judge says so. Do you agree with her, that brigade commanders can deploy combat troops to foreign countries regardless of what authorization a Constitutionally-valid POTUS does or doesn’t give?

To come up with that decision, Lind had to totally ignore the last 3 of the 4 elements of “lawfulness” for Article 90 - particularly ii. Do you agree with her that those elements don’t apply?


804 posted on 12/15/2010 2:50:46 PM PST by butterdezillion
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