Supreme Court To Rule On Whether Ashcroft Can Be Sued

[Phred42]

Can't imagine they will let this happen - Think of the Can of worms this would open up!

:bounce:

:popcorn:


Supreme Court To Rule On Whether Ashcroft Can Be Sued

A Pakistani man who was arrested after the Sept. 11 attacks says he was illegally detained and beaten. The justices will examine whether high-ranking officials are immune from such lawsuits.

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court came to the aid of former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft on Monday by agreeing to hear his claim that he and other high-level Bush administration officials are shielded from being sued by immigrants who say they were rounded up, abused and beaten after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.0617 03 1

The court’s move stops for now a lawsuit by a Pakistani man who was held for nearly six months in solitary confinement in New York.

The justices voted to decide whether the president’s top appointees are immune from lawsuits growing out of their response to “an unprecedented national security crisis.”

After the Sept. 11 attacks, hundreds of immigrants, nearly all of them Muslim men, were taken into custody and questioned. Officials feared then that the Al Qaeda terrorist network could have “sleeper cells” in the United States, and that these operatives might have been planning more attacks.

As the head of the Justice Department, Ashcroft ordered the FBI to move aggressively and to use all available legal means to question suspects and gather intelligence.

[Vickers]

1. I'm gonna make a prediction...

...he will be deemed immune from any legal action.

:eyes:

[Phred42]

2. Don't pee in my Easter Basket

:rofl:


I wouldn't bet against you on that

[TrogL]

4. Me too - the Pakistan man will be dead in a week

[EFerrari]

3. They weren't only questioned. They were abused and there's TAPE

-- something like 800 tapes of their abuse in that New York jail.

[Howler]

5. HEY!

If a sitting president can be sued and brought to trial for sexual accusations (Bill Clinton) John Ashcroft is liable.

[lame54]

6. "In a 5 to 4 ruling...

blah blah blah bullshit"