Senator Leahy determined to restore America's Bill of Rights & habeas corpus?!
note: SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY was one of the two US senators targetted by the deadly ANTHRAX LETTERS just a week or two after the 9-11-2001 terrorist hijackings; anthrax attacks that KILLED five US postal workers when the deadly bacteria escaped the envelopes they were sent in while going through postal handling equipment.
So it is not suprissing to see that Senator Leahy, a leader who was NOT protected by the the billions and billions of dollars and great secrecy of America's national security apparatus, is among the first COURAGEOUS Democratic leaders to CONFRONT the "Military Commissions Act", aka the "Torture and Dictatorship law", drafted and signed into law at the insistence of the Bush White House.
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Senator Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus
Nov. 11, 2006
by UPI/Washington Times
http://washtimes.com/upi/20061111-111429-7560r.htm
A battle is shaping up between Democrats and the White House over the Military Commissions Act, signed into law last month by President George W. Bush.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.
A spokeswoman for Leahy told the newspaper the bill would be intended to repeal portions of the law that prevent some detainees from pursuing federal court challenges to the government's authority to hold them indefinitely.
Spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told the newspaper the goal is to "try and do something to reverse the damage."
Scott L. Silliman, Director of the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University School of Law, told the newspaper an attempt to amend the law could set up a partisan showdown in Congress, and possibly a presidential veto.
Civil rights attorneys filed a constitutional challenge to the act after Bush signed it Oct. 17, the Journal said.
So it is not suprissing to see that Senator Leahy, a leader who was NOT protected by the the billions and billions of dollars and great secrecy of America's national security apparatus, is among the first COURAGEOUS Democratic leaders to CONFRONT the "Military Commissions Act", aka the "Torture and Dictatorship law", drafted and signed into law at the insistence of the Bush White House.
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Senator Leahy aims at restoring habeas corpus
Nov. 11, 2006
by UPI/Washington Times
http://washtimes.com/upi/20061111-111429-7560r.htm
A battle is shaping up between Democrats and the White House over the Military Commissions Act, signed into law last month by President George W. Bush.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is expected to take over as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and The (Calif.) Daily Journal reports that Leahy is drafting a bill to undo portions of the new law in an effort to restore habeas corpus rights for enemy combatants.
A spokeswoman for Leahy told the newspaper the bill would be intended to repeal portions of the law that prevent some detainees from pursuing federal court challenges to the government's authority to hold them indefinitely.
Spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler told the newspaper the goal is to "try and do something to reverse the damage."
Scott L. Silliman, Director of the Center for Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University School of Law, told the newspaper an attempt to amend the law could set up a partisan showdown in Congress, and possibly a presidential veto.
Civil rights attorneys filed a constitutional challenge to the act after Bush signed it Oct. 17, the Journal said.
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