| Bush library plans stir university debate | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:47:01 PM by Blog57 Team | | With growing faculty unease over plans to enshrine President Bush's official papers and a policy institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, creating the nation's 13th presidential library is off to a familiar start: discord. On Thursday, 68 theologians, professors and other faculty present and past, citing complaints about Bush's "poor marks" on civil liberties, the environment, gay rights and the war in Iraq, sent the university president a letter questioning whether visions of the library were consistent with the school's religious and academic values. "According to George Bush's closest associates, the half-billion-dollar endowment will be used by the institute to hire conservative scholars to agree to 'write papers and books favorable to the president's policies,' " said the letter calling for a campus discussion on the affiliation.... | |
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| | | Letter to the editor: Voice displeasure by voting | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:46:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Now, more than ever, it is important for all Americans to exercise their right vote. The past year has seen multiple scandals and the suspension of habeas corpus. In addition to that legislation, the Republican-led Senate cut federal spending for student loans by about $12 billion. Also, it seems Republicans seek to uphold religious traditions while deeming other traditions, such as the Geneva Conventions, too broad to be applied to current issues. While the administration has been very creative in its interpretation of the Geneva Conventions, it has not been as swift to implement solutions to the environmental crises that the world is facing. For example, the Bush administration refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which set international limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The events over the past year have indicated that many congressmen have abandoned the values of their constituents in favor of their own personal gain.... | |
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| | | Attorney rolls out new appeals, old arguments | | Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 6:46:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | He was rebuked for using issues 'nearly verbatim' from one filing to another. By Chuck LindellAMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Monday, October 30, 2006 Reprimanded for repeated unethical behavior and chastised for poor work on a death penalty appeal, Fort Worth lawyer Richard Alley was banned from practicing before his hometown federal court for one year. The 2002 judgment, notable for its unusually blunt condemnation of Alley's legal skills, also removed Alley as the federal appeals lawyer for condemned inmate Edward Lagrone. .... | |
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| | | Justice Dept.: Habeas cases now in military hands | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 6:45:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON -- Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison. In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act, it said, provides that "no court, justice, or judge" can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future. Priest tells some details of relationship with Foley NEW YORK -- An elderly priest admitted getting naked in saunas with Mark Foley decades ago when the ex-congressman was a boy in Florida.... | |
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| | | HABEAS CORPUS | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:45:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | A ccording to the pundits, George W. Bush, with minimal poll numbers, discouraging GOP election prospects and bad news sweeping upon him from Korea to Kirkuk to congressional pages, is a weakened president. The pundits are wrong. As of this month, Bush has power that previous presidents never imagined: power to round up people whom he considers dangerous; interrogate them short of torture, but, um, flexibly; and hold them for as long as he wants, while telling courts it's none of their business. According to the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Bush has this unquestioned power -- without the annoyance of habeas corpus -- over any enemy combatants picked up on the battlefield or anyplace else, and millions of noncitizens living in the United States considered to "purposely and materially" support terrorist organizations.... | |
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| | | March against fascism | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:45:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Despite everything horrific that the Bush regime already has delivered, who could imagine it would go so far as to deny habeas corpus and legalize torture?With passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, that is what it has done – sowing seeds of fascism; rendering this the darkest hour in our nation’s history as a democracy.Will we, the American people, condone this gradual chipping away of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, under the guise of fighting terrorism, or will we be smart enough to recognize that this is how fascism starts?Using fear (of an enemy) to gain public support for laws that strip rights and give government total control is the classic way totalitarian regimes have taken hold.Will we be silent, and hence complicit, or will we find the courage of forefathers such as Patrick Henry and be willing to proclaim, "Give me liberty or give me death"?Go to www.worldcantwait.org to learn about protest marches against Bush policies that will be taking place across our country on Thursday, and join the one at Grant Park in Chicago at noon Thursday.Nancy PetersonCrystal Lake .... | |
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| | | Republicans Give In To Bush, Betray America | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:45:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | Senators John McCain, John Warner, and Lindsey Graham were presented with an opportunity to uphold the fundamental human right known as habeas corpus, or flinch and write a law that would retroactively make sure that George W. Bush could not be prosecuted for violations of habeas corpus in our overseas concentration camps and prisons. It was a contest between protecting the President and protecting the Constitution. The Republican senators flinched, and in last week's so-called "compromise" chose Bush over the Constitution. In doing so, they turned their backs on a rule of law that stretches back over nearly eight centuries to an epic moment in 1215 on a meadow by the River Thames in the United Kingdom. .... | |
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| | | Joc-Joc impleads Condi Rice in habeas plea | | Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 2:46:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | There is more than meets the eye on the detention case against former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn Joc-Joc Bolante, as his petition for habeas corpus, filed by his lawyers, Azulay, Horn and Seiden LLC - said to be the second largest law firm in the United States,before the US District Court in Illinois, has impleaded US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. This was the view disclosed by lawyer Harry Roque, who has flown to the US to bring to the US court the amicus brief which opposes Bolantes political asylum petition. In an e-mail to the Tribune, Roque said he believes that with Bolante impleading Rice, there is that tacit understanding that the former Arroyo officials case is not just an ordinary revocation of a B1B2 visa but involves a more significant reason, adding that the document (Bolantes habeas corpus petition) indicates that Bolante himself is perhaps aware that Presidential Directive 212 which denies safe haven in the US to kleptocrats is already being applied against him.... | |
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| | | CA rejects petition for habeas corpus by Army major’s wife | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:45:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE COURT of Appeals (CA) has dismissed a petition for habeas corpus filed by the wife of an Army major who has been detained by the military for allegedly distributing leaflets encouraging his peers to withdraw support from the government. In its 14-page decision penned by Associate Justice Myrna Dimaranan-Vidal, the argument of Marie Fe Aquino that the detention of Army Major Jason Aquino violated Article 70 of the Articles of War did not hold water. Article 70 empowers commanding officers to arrest officers serving under their immediate command and enable the proper military authority to put an instant end to criminal or unmilitary conduct. "In the instant case, considering that the abovementioned rules had been satisfied, the detention of Major Aquino is legal," the Appeals Court said.... | |
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| | | Zayco counsel hit Prosecutor office for delay in Tan case | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 6:45:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE counsel of the Zayco family recently lambasted the Iloilo City Prosecutors Office for the "delay in the resolution of the Tan massacre that happened last January 8, 2006." Lawyer Antonio Zulueta, counsel of Zayco family in Kabangkalan, Negros Occidental, during an interview at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, raised this. .... | |
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