check out Jay Selulow (religious right lawyer) on POTUS rights

[bobbieinok]

This is the organization and lawyer supported by Pat Robertson.

They started with school/religion issues.

See web page, and don't you like the 'cute' play on the ACLU?

ACLJ: Supreme Court Must Permit the President to Act as Commander-In-Chief in War on Terror - Not Federal Judiciary
April 28, 2004

(Washington, DC) - The American Center for Law and Justice, which specializes in constitutional law, said today the U.S. Supreme Court has an important opportunity - in the cases of Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla - to permit the President - in his constitutional role as Commander-in-Chief - to lead the nation in the war on terrorism - including taking action necessary to hold U.S. citizens as enemy combatants, which are not subject to the jurisdiction of U.S. courts.

"The constitutional authority vested in the President as Commander-in-Chief is clear - the only question is will the Supreme Court uphold the Presidential authority or usurp it and give to the federal judiciary," said Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the ACLJ, who attended oral arguments today in the Hamdi and Padilla cases and filed amicus briefs in support of the government's position with the high court. "The war on terrorism is unique and ongoing. And while there are many battlegrounds - including our own country - the operational decisions cannot be subject to the jurisdiction of hundreds of federal judges across the nation. Such a remedy would not only violate the constitution, but would create confusion and chaos. To give enemy combatants access to the U.S. court system would undercut our ability to gather intelligence information to protect Americans from future attacks."

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The ACLJ brief in the Hamdi case contends that "enemy belligerents are detained, not based on probable cause or other important domestic constitutional principles, but because of their armed belligerency, capture, and continuing threat to American interests. Their detention, therefore, is preventive rather than punitive."

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http://www.aclj.org/news/pressreleases/040428_sc_terror.asp

[ikojo]

1. Not really related but Jay Sekulow was born Jewish but

"found Jesus" and converted.

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/other/ynot/iss4/articles/sekulow.htm