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    No Future for the GOP?

    I'll say. I used to lurk around here a good 5 years ago, when the color scheme was green on black. When I posted here again recently, I was expecting to be attacked from the left, but as it turns out Dissensus seems to be center-right now. I was not expecting that.
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    No Future for the GOP?

    There are plenty of criminals hiding out in countries that don't have extradition treaties, but I don't see any DOJ assassination program being launched. I find it incredibly alarming that people are willing to just throw away centuries of hard-fought-for protections just to get someone that...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    Well, this is my take: I've never invested a lot of faith in international law or governance, as it seems to be a work-in-progress and is mostly still just voluntary. The reason that this is important is that the same thing doesn't hold at the national level where we do have strong...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    Are you referring to a Robert Cover sort of approach? I'm against any form of political decision-making from the bench. I guess there's always going to be interpretive issues, but the interpretive scope should be as narrow as possible, with judges kept on a short leash. If there's a problem...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    I should mention that that is in the context of the German court system, not international law
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    No Future for the GOP?

    well, they actually do even argue about that in the context of natural law vs. positive law theory. The classic example is of someone who collaborated with the Nazis in Germany in a way that was legal according to German law at the time. Can you convict them of crimes after the fact, even...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    well, I guess you can always argue any point in law, but this seems pretty clear to me. At the very least support for this seems inconsistent with any criticism of Bush's policies on detention and torture.
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    No Future for the GOP?

    yep. The really crazy thing about this is how flimsy the evidence is. You'd think that they would at least pick someone who is clearly guilty of say shooting an American soldier or something like that if they were trying to ram this through. Even that wouldn't make it right or less of an...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    IMO there were 2 causes of 2000: 1) The DLC/New Democrats completely destroying the Democratic base (this is the most important) 2) Bush v. Gore, the worst Supreme Court decision ever. I guess I should also lump in the voting irregularities as well I actually loathe Nader on a personal level...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    oh don't get me wrong, I'm in no way endorsing voting for the Republicans because Barack Obama has (quite incredibly) been able to make them the lesser of two evils on this issue. I have no doubt that, if returned to power, they will easily be able to regain the lead in evilness. I'm what they...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    Well, the Bush policies were bad too, and I don't doubt that he would have done this too if he thought he could get away with it, but the key word in that Times piece is "unprecedented". "The Obama Administration has taken the unprecedented step of authorising the killing of a US citizen" Bush...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    From that article: "When Obama was seeking the Democratic nomination, the Constitutional Law Scholar answered a questionnaire about executive power distributed by The Boston Globe's Charlie Savage, and this was one of his answers: 5. Does the Constitution permit a president to detain US...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    The constitution is ALWAYS supreme to international law and takes precedence, especially if you happen to be the President. Scottdisco, I think this might be what you are referring to: "At the time, The Washington Post's Dana Priest had noted deep in a long article that Obama had continued...
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    No Future for the GOP?

    as far as I know Bush never allowed this. The worst he did was illegal detention and not respecting habeas corpus. This is way way beyond that. I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but Greenwald is (the first link I posted) and if he thinks that it is an abomination then I don't doubt it.
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