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Last weekend, President Donald Trump argued that those foreigners who enter the United States unlawfully should simply be taken to the border, escorted across it and let go. According to the president, this would save precious government resources, avoid the business of separating children from their parents and free up the Border Patrol and other federal assets to do their jobs. He is undoubtedly correct on the beneficial consequences to the government of forced deportation without due process. Yet deportation without a trial is profoundly unconstitutional. Here is the back story. The nation has been torn apart by the images...

“I’ve had a full classified briefing” from military officials, Forbes told the Free Beacon. “It could be as long as a year before we actually get that released.” Details of the abduction are likely to start an uproar in the nation and call into question the Obama administration’s handling of the incident, which many experts say violated international and maritime law. “I think that when the details actually come out, most Americans are going to be kind of taken aback by the entire incident, both how Iran handled it and how we handled it,” Forbes disclosed. “I think that’s going...

<p>Supplies were dwindling, his 20-man crew had not been paid for months and Captain Khan Jubair Niaz was desperate as his ship drifted aimlessly in the Gulf of Suez.</p> <p>“We have not committed any crime and yet we are being punished,” Niaz wrote in a plaintive email to the Sailors' Society, a 200-year-old, United Kingdom-based nonprofit that specializes in ministering to merchant seafarers. “I just want to go home. I am not interested in money. If I die here on this ship, then money is no good to me.”</p>

There's not a warship for miles, a small pirate skiff is speeding toward you and there's no way the creaking tub you're on can outrun the bandits. How long do you wait before you shoot?

Having been flooded with emails [on the impending SCOTUS nomination] lately, but this one stands out: The SCOTUS nominee will be Joy Clement. WH will announce quickly, probably Tuesday.Major players are all on board. Senate Democrats are okay with the nomination.Specter is pleased. His staff is gearing up as of late Monday night.Expect Democratic special interest groups to go nuts. A handful of Democratic Seantors will play 'mean' to pacify the base. (their bark will be worse than bite)Joy is like O'Connor on business issues and we are comfortable that she is with us on upcoming life issues.

A U.N. treaty governing the oceans could clear the way for U.S. oil companies to tap deep oil and gas reserves offshore, which supporters say would bolster America's energy security. But that access might be blocked, because conservatives opposed to the multinational treaty are fighting hard to keep a strong Senate majority from ratifying the pact. When Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice called in January for prompt ratification of the treaty, she gave American oil companies their best hope yet to tap oil and gas reserves lying under thousands of feet of seawater. <snip>.......... In 2003, about 62 percent of...

Abortion ship denied entry to Poland WLADYSLAWOWO, Poland (Reuters) - The crew of a Dutch floating abortion clinic have accused Poland of denying their ship entry into a port in the Roman Catholic country which has strict laws on terminating pregnancy. The ship, which offers abortions in international waters to women in countries where the procedure is more restricted than in the Netherlands, was forced to anchor offshore after being turned away from Wladyslawowo on Friday. Women on Waves head Rebecca Gomperts and local abortion-rights activists said they were told the port was closed due to bad weather. But while...

WASHINGTON, May 28 — The Supreme Court, its justices as bitterly divided as ever over where to draw the line between federal and state authority, today expanded the concept of state sovereignty to shield states from having to answer private complaints before federal agencies. The 5-to-4 decision came in the term's most important federalism case, a dispute between the Federal Maritime Commission, which enforces the federal Shipping Act, and the state-owned Port of Charleston, S.C. A cruise line went to the commission to complain that the port had wrongfully denied a berth to one of its ships. In ruling that...