President Bush has threatened to veto a defense appropriation bill being debated by the Senate IF the Senate includes an amendment which would RESTORE the CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED right of habeus corpus
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The silliness of an extraterritorial constitutiongravitron5September 22 2007, 03:43:51 UTC
Briefly, I think it's quite legitimate to distinguish between the application of habeas corpus to citizens on American soil; to aliens on American soil; to American citizens outside American soil; and to _aliens_ outside American soil. We can quibble about the first three categories, but I am severely disinclined to extend any constitutional rights to the fourth one. That the Constitution might have extraterritorial reach - and that persons not party to the Constitution's implied social contract might have access to the rights embodied therein - is utterly absurd, and makes for all sorts of strange quandaries if taken to its logical conclusion
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