A preview of our future courtesy of Emperor Kennedy.
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An object lesson in the dangers posed to our country by the recent Supreme Court cases Boumediene v. Bush and Dada v. Mukasey is playing itself out in the U.K. The legal entanglements that have hamstrung the British government’s case to deport radical Islamic cleric, Abu Qatada are a preview of what we can now expect to see in the U.S. court system thanks to Emperor Kennedy and his fellow leftist justices. Qatada, wanted in his native Jordan for allegedly plotting a series of bomb attacks in Amman in 1998 and for providing finance and advice to terrorists planning a series of explosions there, and his lawyers have made a mockery of the courts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2147168/Abu-Qatada-Islamic-cleric...
“Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic cleric described as Osama bin Laden’s “right-hand man in Europe”, has been released from jail after a judge ruled that there were no grounds to keep him in prison.
The decision to allow him to return to his home in London – where he will receive around £1,000 per month in state benefits – made a mockery of the government’s promise to crack down on terror suspects, and embarrassed the Home Office, which had pledged to deport Qatada to Jordan to face terror charges.” Snip
it gets better...
“Mr. Justice Mitting signed an order to release Qatada on bail, with strict conditions, following an earlier Court of Appeal decision to refuse his deportation on the grounds that it would breach human rights law.” snip
“It leaves the government’s strategy for deporting terror suspects in tatters, as 11 other suspects awaiting deportation hearings, who include Jordanians and Algerians, are likely to rely on the ruling to keep them in Britain.” snip
“Qatada came to Britain in 1993 using a fake passport and was granted refugee status after claiming asylum for his wife and three children. He has since had two more children, who have British citizenship because they were born here.” snip
“The taxpayer will also fund at least £12,000 per year in benefits for Qatada, his wife and five children, even though Qatada was once found to have £170,000 in cash in his possession when he was stopped by police.”
This is the lunacy we will have if Boumediene and Dada aren't challenged and resisted by the President and the House.
Isn’t there anyone in Congress that has the sand to bring up impeachment? Yeah I know it is unlikely to succeed in the legal sense but it sends a much needed message to the Supremes that they may not proceed, emboldened by the seeming acquiescence of our representatives, to further trample the Constitution to suit their political preferences. I’ve already given up on GW. He’s too busy burnishing his legacy.
Seriously…there’s not one single representative that’s willing to challenge this affront to their constitutional authority to conduct the people’s business?
“If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, ... the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
- Abraham Lincoln