According to John McCain, citing Supreme Court rulings from the US Supreme Court in cases against the Bush administration, a president Obama or President Hillary Clinton will have the unitary authority to deem any American citizen a threat and order them imprisoned without any access to US Courts.

Do you believe that the US Supreme Court was correct in its ruling, and is John McCain correct in his interpretation of the US Supreme Court decisions?

If President Obama or President Clinton orders you to be swept up, sent to a secret location, and then tortured, as President Bush argues is the right of the US president, will you confess to being a terrorist, or will you claim that you are being held contrary to your rights?

If you are being held contrary to your rights, which rights are you claiming?

Certainly you would not claim the US Constitution gives you rights, unless you believe the conservative, strict constructionist, non-judicial activist, justices are wrong, and the liberal justices are correct.

Can you provide a link to this statement by McCain?

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It is mentioned in this episode; it doesn't have him actually saying it, but someone who asked questions of all three of the current candidates, McCain, Clinton, Obama.

This American Life

The podcast won't be available for a week, and the website doesn't provide much detail on who was featured, and I was shopping for food when the statement was made so I wasn't focused on taking notes.


In any case, you should not be surprised that Bush has claimed he can do this and that the
US Supreme Court has said that he can, and it makes sense that McCain would say that the US Supreme Court has said that he would be able to hold any US citizen without the courts having any say. If he didn't say that, he would be attacked by the conservatives for being weak and anti-American.

More important than a link to McCain's alleged statement, could you cite the supreme court decision affirming this power?

The Constitution does not "give" you any rights, it merely affirms pre-existing rights and protects them.

I don't recall what McCain cited, but how about
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld

mulp,

If President Obama or President Clinton orders you to be swept up, sent to a secret location, and then tortured, as President Bush argues is the right of the US president, will you confess to being a terrorist, or will you claim that you are being held contrary to your rights?

I would think if Obama or Clinton were President and had a Republican Congress that was trying to prevent the FBI/CIA from gathering intelligence to prevent a terror attack, their supporters would want them to have these powers.
This is what you get when you gamble with the lives of innocent Americans for political gain.

Why are you making accusations and then not offereing anything at all to support them?

Which Supreme Court cases said this? Because the one below doesn't say this at all.

The US government lost this case, so again, what case was it that McCain cited?

Lets see here, you can't come up with anything that says McCain actually said this and you can't come up with any Supreme Court case which says this either. Why should anyone believe you?

mulp is full of it.

McCain never said it, the US SC court never ruled it.

Typical liberal misinformation trying to demonize their opponents with lies.

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Probably they will, but only if we don't swear allegiance to the party...like in Ohio.

Certainly any president now has the right to imprison anybody with out charges . Bush saw to that.

All they have to do is say you are suspected of terrorism.

And who defines terrorism? the president of course.

You could be guilty of terrorism economically because you advocate more regulation on business . which Bush deems as a terrorist act against the economy.

Presidents that follow Bush will have the same powers.

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