{"id":200005,"date":"2007-06-11T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/11\/three-cheers-for-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T20:46:00","slug":"three-cheers-for-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/11\/three-cheers-for-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Cheers for the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Bush, L&#8217;\u00e9tat, ce n&#8217;es jamais tu.  (The State is never you)  My apologies for the high school French, but the use of the familiar form is intentional, and an insult.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/11\/washington\/11cndcnd-combatant.html?hp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/11\/washington\/11cndcnd-combatant.html?hp\">Court Says Military Cannot Hold &#8216;Enemy Combatant&#8217; &#8211; New York Times<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration\u2019s central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism, a federal appeals court ordered the Pentagon to release a man being held as an enemy combatant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote, \u201ceven if the President calls them \u2018enemy combatants,\u2019 would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution \u2014 and the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe refuse to recognize a claim to power,\u201d Judge Motz added, \u201cthat would so alter the constitutional foundations of our Republic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Bush, L&#8217;\u00e9tat, ce n&#8217;es jamais tu. (The State is never you) My apologies for the high school French, but the use of the familiar form is intentional, and an insult. Court Says Military Cannot Hold &#8216;Enemy Combatant&#8217; &#8211; New York Times In a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration\u2019s central assertions about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}