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A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White Houses ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process.
Last week, a federal judge ruled that an temporary injunction on section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 must be made permanent, essentially barring the White House from ever enforcing a clause in the NDAA that can let them put any US citizen behind bars indefinitely over mere allegations of terrorist associations. On Monday, the US Justice Department asked for an emergency stay on that order, and hours later US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier agreed to intervene and place a hold on the injunction.
The stay will remain in effect until at least September 28, when a three-judge appeals court panel is expected to begin addressing the issue.
On December 31, 2011, US President Barack Obama signed the NDAA into law, even though he insisted on accompanying that authorization with a statement explaining his hesitance to essentially eliminate habeas corpus for the American people.
http://rt.com/usa/news/obama-lohier-ndaa-stay-414/
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)Huzzah.
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)He wants that power, and will use it when and if we get into the next two wars. The signing statement is irrelevant to what he or another President decides to do later.
xiamiam
(4,906 posts)"Within only hours of Afrans statement being made public, demonstrators in New York City waged a day of protests in order to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Although it is not believed that the NDAA was used to justify any arrests, more than 180 political protesters were detained by the NYPD over the course of the days actions. One week earlier, the results of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union confirmed that the FBI has been monitoring Occupy protests in at least one instance, but the bureau would not give further details, citing that decision is "in the interest of national defense or foreign policy."
Puregonzo1188
(1,948 posts)AnneD
(15,774 posts)over the Romney tapes and slip this through throught the back door. SHAME SHAME SHAME
Obama may promise not to use it, but that is not to say that we one day may have another Nixon type president that does away with Habeas corpus. This is wrong.
xiamiam
(4,906 posts)to 60 countries..distraction is a ploy..pay attention to Mitts taxes but dont watch while all of the more serious shenanigans go on
I have posted this hoping to get some serious conversation about this but no one here seems to give a damn.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)I get the synopsis. What I pay attention to are the gems like this. Got use to doing this on the Friday Bush White House News dump! I am ashamed to see Obama repeating the tradition.
I don't want the crumbs from the table, I want a seat at the table.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Link to various news services on the temporary injunction.
http://www.google.com/news?ncl=da3vetD4-47toyME8C3z9Wr5TOUFM&q=Second+Circuit+Judge+Raymond+Lohier&lr=English&hl=en
treestar
(82,383 posts)Did he not issue an opinion?
This looks like a complete legal thicket. Where's the opinion so we can work out just exactly where the case stands? Asking for a stay on appeal to the Second Circuit is routine - so it appears the Second Circuit will hear the issue now.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)dogday
(24,008 posts)is fucked up. No habeas corpus? I know the judge voted to deny, but why this was even considered is beyond me.