Now is the time for our Democratic Representatives to step up and demand that we restore Habeas Corpus. Call your Congressperson and tell them it's important that this main tenant of our Constitution should be restored.
The Times says; Bring it back.
Glenn Greenwald sums it up;
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is, without question, the single worst law enacted during the Bush presidency, and is one of the most destructive laws passed in the last several decades. It is not merely a bad law. It vests in the President the power to detain people indefinitely with no meaningful opportunity to contest the government's accusations. That is the very power the Founders sought first and foremost to prohibit......
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