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Breyer's Guantanamo "Compromise"

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The other toady branches of our federal government continue to roll over and appease Junior without fail.  Apparently Stephen Breyer thinks that habeas corpus protection can be gutted simply by having Congress enacting a piece of legislation to that effect.

MSNBC:

In Wednesday’s argument before the high court in the case of Boumediene vs. Bush, the latest attempt by detainees to win their release, Justice Stephen Breyer indicated three times that it would be possible for Congress to enact a law that would provide the basis for holding the detainees indefinitely without trial.

Breyer seemed to suggest to Solicitor General Paul Clement that long-term detention might pass muster with the Supreme Court under "some special statute involving preventive detention and danger, which has not yet been enacted."

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