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Feds Push Back Against NY Court Opposing NDAA

Submitted by go213mph on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 20:51
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"Reuters reports that Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a New York judge to lift her order barring enforcement of part of a new law that permits indefinite military detention. The case was brought by critics including a prize-winning journalist who argued the NDAA authorization is too vague and threatens free speech.

The Obama Administration argued on behalf of its right to dictatorial powers that courts rarely intervene in matters directed by the Executive Branch. "Issuing an injunction regarding the President himself, or restraining future military operations (including military detention) ... would be extraordinary," prosecutors wrote, noting that they were considering an appeal of the judge's order."

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Oh, really

Submitted by mdefarge on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 21:44.

"The Obama Administration argued on behalf of its right to dictatorial powers that courts rarely intervene in matters directed by the Executive Branch."

It's rare, too, that we have a United States president appointing communist sympathizers within his administration, rare that we have a president (over 314 million American citizens) who can't prove his own American citizenship, leaving a forged birth certificate on the government website, rare that we would have a president who would mock the Holy Bible, rare that we have a president who would grant himself the power to put the country under martial law in peacetime, rare that...

Same speech

Submitted by PeoplePower on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 21:05.

obama gave the supreme court that's hearing the obamacare debacle
That's what the courts jobs are, to judge the constitutionallity of the bill.

IMO, the courts are just as much to blame

Submitted by UndeclaredWars on Sun, 05/27/2012 - 20:59.

for the demise of the USA than the congress and the president. They are often overlooked but make no mistake they are part of the problem...

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