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- Barack Obama Approves Law Subjecting Americans To Imprisonment Without Criminal Trial
- Americans Organizing Recalls Of Senators Who Voted For Imprisonment Without Criminal Trial
- Which of 3 Caucuses (Tea Party, Constitution, Progressive) Most Opposes Indefinite Detention in the USA?
House Constitution Caucus Overwhelmingly Supports Indefinite Detention without Charge
The Constitution Caucus of the House of Representatives proclaims itself dedicated to keeping congressional action within the bounds of the United States Constitution:
"The Constitution is the guide I will never abandon." -- George Washington
Recognizing that the Constitution can only be preserved if it lives in the hearts and minds of the American people, the Constitution ...
Vern Buchanan Faces Heat On Campaign Law Breaking
In August, we mentioned a complaint filed by Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington against U.S. Representative Vern Buchanan. Congressman Buchanan was accused of paying his employees to make donations to his political campaign, directing them to illegally claim the money as their own, thus purposefully circumventing campaign finance laws.
Today, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune ...
New York Liberals Organizing Against Kirsten Gillibrand
Last week, New York's U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act, a law that allows the federal government to imprison Americans without criminal trial for extended periods of time. The act is in blatant violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, but Gillibrand seemed unconcerned by that.
Senator ...
Partial Effort To Reform National Defense Authorization Act Stuck In Committee
The National Defense Authorization Act passed this month to take effect in 2012 grants the federal government the unconstitutional power to seize people within the borders of the United States, including U.S. citizens, and throw them into prison without any time limit, without any trial, without criminal charge, and without substantiation of the evidence against ...
Liberal Protesters Target Susan Davis For Support Of Arbitrary Imprisonment
Democratic U.S. Representative Susan Davis has come to take the support of liberal voters for granted. A protest yesterday, however, made it clear that liberals in her home district are disenchanted with her increasingly Republican-like approach to government.
Last week, Susan Davis voted for the National Defense Authorization Act. The National Defense Authorization Act ...
Liberals Splitting From Obama Re-election Campaign Over National Defense Authorization Act
Congressman James Moran warned Barack Obama not to approve the National Defense Authorization Act. "It is un-American and unconstitutional. We should reject the false choice between our short-term security and our long-term survival as the leader of the free world," he said, in a speech before the U.S. House of Representatives last week.
Why did ...
On Imprisonment without Charge, Trent Franks Read the Constitution, But He Didn’t Hear It
On January 6 2011, U.S. Representative Trent Franks participated in a show in the U.S. Capitol Building: the reading of the United States Constitution. Rep. Franks was assigned to read the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a ...
Senate Approves Legislation To Speed Up XL Pipeline Waiver Of Environmental Rules
Today, the U.S. Senate has voted to pass legislation that will force Barack Obama to make a decision about whether to issue a special waiver of standard environmental regulations for the XL crude oil pipeline, a project that would take thick sludge extracted from the Alberta tar sands and send it snaking all the way ...
With Sherrod Brown, Fascism is No Exception
On December 16 Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio voted to toss people into prison forever without charges, just because the government says that these people are terrorists. The Government doesn't have to file charges or prove its accusations in court. That would be a trial, and trials are apparently out of date.
In voting ...
Effort To Imprison Americans Without Trial Supported By Hawaii’s Democratic Senators
The 5th Amendment to the Constitution makes a promise to Americans: No one can be deprived of their liberty without due process. Under the Constitution, you can't be thrown in prison unless you have been convicted of the crime you're accused of, and the conviction has to take place through a fair trial.
H.R. 1540, ...