Lawless 'Compromises': Difference between revisions

From Discourse DB
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
 
(Oops)
 
Line 3: Line 3:
|source=The Nation
|source=The Nation
|date=September 15, 2006
|date=September 15, 2006
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/opinion/15fri1.html
|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061002/editors
|quote="The President--in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision striking down his Administration's post-9/11 military tribunals and faced with the possibility of more lawsuits on behalf of those CIA detainees--is attempting desperate aikido, spinning his eroding legal and political position into yet another assault on the Constitution and civilized values."
|quote="The President--in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision striking down his Administration's post-9/11 military tribunals and faced with the possibility of more lawsuits on behalf of those CIA detainees--is attempting desperate aikido, spinning his eroding legal and political position into yet another assault on the Constitution and civilized values."
}}
}}


{{opinion|Military Commissions Act of 2006|Act should be passed|against}}
{{opinion|Military Commissions Act of 2006|Act should be passed|against}}

Latest revision as of 15:31, September 28, 2006

This is an opinion item.

Author(s) The Nation editorial board
Source The Nation
Date September 15, 2006
URL http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061002/editors
Quote
Quotes-start.png "The President--in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision striking down his Administration's post-9/11 military tribunals and faced with the possibility of more lawsuits on behalf of those CIA detainees--is attempting desperate aikido, spinning his eroding legal and political position into yet another assault on the Constitution and civilized values." Quotes-end.png


Add or change this opinion item's references


This item argues against the position Act should be passed on the topic Military Commissions Act of 2006.