The Atlantic:
Is it lawful for the president to order any American held indefinitely as a terrorist, without formal charges, evidence presented in open court, a trial by jury, or a standard of "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"? The U.S. Senate had a chance Wednesday to assert that no, a president does not possess that power -- that the United States Constitution guarantees due process.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) urged her colleagues to seize the opportunity. "We as a Congress are being asked, for the first time certainly since I have been in this body, to affirmatively authorize that an American citizen can be picked up and held indefinitely without being charged or tried. That is a very big deal, because in 1971 we passed a law that said you cannot do this. This was after the internment of Japanese-American citizens in World War II," she said. "What we are talking about here is the right of our government, as specifically authorized in a law by Congress, to say that a citizen of the United States can be arrested and essentially held without trial forever."
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The rest is here:
Those who were opposed to arresting U.S. Citizens indefinitely (who voted for stripping the nutjob anti-American proposal, (shout out to Barack Obama and Rand Paul for opposing this lunacy):
Those idiot war hawk, anti-civil liberty nutjobs who wanted to detain American citizens and put them through military commissions:
Take note of these morons, regardless of their party they should be made to pay during their respective primary.
Rand Paul on the Senate floor:
UPDATE: Rand Paul vs. John McCain:
UPDATE 2 (As of 12/4/11):
Track the bill here:
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