The US Supreme Court has further enhanced the administration’s ability to detain anyone, at any time, on any pretext today, when it refused to hear the Hedges v. Obama case, meaning an Appeals Court ruling on the matter will stand.
The case stems from a 2012 lawsuit brought by Chris Hedges, the Pentagon Papers’ Daniel Ellsberg, RevolutionTruth’s Jenifer Bolen, Icelandic MP and WikiLeaks officials Briggita Jonsdottir, author Noam Chomsky, Kai Wargalla, Alexa O’Brein, and Cornel West, who sought to block the enforcement of a 2012 National Defense Authorization Act statute that allows the president to unilaterally impose indefinite detention on anyone, without access to courts, if he personally believes something they did “aided” the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
Courts initially banned such detentions, over intense objection from President Obama, who argued that prohibiting the detentions would be an unconstitutional restriction of presidential power.
The Appeals Court eventually restored the detention power, however, insisting that Hedges et al didn’t have standing to contest their future detention because they couldn’t prove that the president might decide to detain them at some point in the future.
The standing argument effectively makes it impossible to challenge the NDAA statute, as it precludes challenges before the detention takes place, and once a person has been disappeared into military custody under the NDAA, the law explicitly denies them any access to the courts.
The Supreme Court might as well close down permanently. Its building can be used to hold the ashes of the Constitution.
Agreed. We are now militarized and we are domestic terrorists as defined by that crook Harry Reid. Harry Reid is in bed with the Chinese on a windmill project that involves the Bundy property from what I understand. Follow the money and you'll find the real terrorists.
OK, how long till the Night and Fog decree comes down?
This law applies to "Justices" on the Supreme Court too, doesn't it?
RIP Constitution.
This law applies to "Justices" on the Supreme Court too, doesn't it?
The Police State is now perfectly legal …
When the court’s are stacked with those who put the well being of government above that of the people, nothing is unconstitutional.
So, as long as the government keeps secret the list of those it will arrest, torture, assassinate, etc.,
that is OK
because the intended victims can't prove they are targeted.
"First chop off their heads, then the trial" says the Red Queen.
Torture a confession before deciding to burn at the stake rules the Inquisition.
No chilling effect on free speech or the press in that rules the Supine Kangaroo Court.
"…unconstitutional restriction of presidential power…"
What about the unconstitutional restriction of citizens' constitutional rights and relief from unconstitutional government power?
The Supreme Court is designed to rule on cases and controversies. Is this a real case? Or is it a political question? It appears to be speculative on the part of those bringing the case and asking them to rule on it as a hypothetical. What has to happen is for it to be a case of someone detained under the Act. If the court would refuse that, then it would prove its total illegitimacy. In this case, it is acting as it always has, albeit over a truly horrible piece of legislation which hangs like a Sword of Damocles over everyone, including their honors.
So much for defending, honoring, upholding and protecting the 4th and 5th Amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
This edifice is rotten to the core and will require no more than a kick in the slats to bring it down.
They can tell you ANY and ALL the lies they wish; but it's a crime to lie to them…….. They can hit, kick bludgeon and rape, but if we even touch them it's assault…….. This is the state of our governance.. Time to get a plan…. to discourage these totalitarian over-reaches… Perhaps it's come time to start dis-enabling every function of government, every edifice of government, every anything the government claims as belonging to or administered by it…….
And how many of you will turn in your guns when the court rules the 2nd doesn't mean what it clearly states?????
The only thing between dictatorship and a true police state is your guns and ammo,,,but will you give it up when ordered to and they come knocking?? Watch Conn. and what happens there.
Clearly the only thing supreme about the court is the AGENDA.
Clearly the passive conservative's have stood by politely and let lessor judges be
appointed. Bork was in mo way more agenda oriented than Elaina Kegan…
OUR ELECTED ARE MENTALLY WEAK.
can you say FACISM…government is the enemy of the people
Mass murder has just been approved by these supreme court justices that have no honor, principles, or souls! The OK to kill more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot combined has been given. Satan is alive and well and his nine (9) black robed executioners have just pronounced sentence on the American public. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have exposed themselves: RINo, DINO, ROBERTS, and OBAMA.