Summary
On Nov 10, with the support of Bush's Justice Department, the Senate had previously passed an amendment by the manipulatively mercurial Senator Lindsey Graham that the American Civil Liberties Union charged "would make the McCain anti-torture amendment nearly impossible to enforce at Guantanamo Bay."Hentoff comments about the constitutional amendment.
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It's Only the Constitution
These are weighty and momentous considerations that go far beyond the detainees at Guantánamo.... [This amendment]... takes away jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States. It is untenable and unthinkable and ought to be rejected.
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, on the floor of the Se...See the full content of this document
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