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Bush: What Constitution?
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Edited | Joshua L. Nov 23, 2003 07:51pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| News Date | Sunday, November 23, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The U.S. Constitution seems unmistakably clear on the point: No person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law -- to know the charges against him, to see a lawyer, to summon witnesses, to have a speedy trial.
The Bush administration doesn't see it that way.
Citing various war powers, the administration says it can hold anyone incommunicado and indefinitely on the president's uncontested assertion that the person is an "enemy combatant."
And it did so with Jose Padilla, 33, a petty criminal but also an American citizen and lifelong resident of the United States. In May 2002, the feds took him into custody in Chicago, his hometown, and whisked him off to New York as a material witness.
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