A message from Patrick Leahy

[mmonk]

Dear (mmonk),

Today the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a stinging rebuke to the Bush-Cheney Administration's handling of military detainees at Guantanamo Bay -- while vindicating you, me, and thousands of others who have spoken out against the Administration's unwise and unconstitutional policies from the very beginning.

In today's 5-4 Boumediene v. Bush decision, the Court ruled that stripping habeas corpus rights from detainees at Guantanamo Bay was unconstitutional. In so doing, the Court reaffirmed the fundamental right of habeas corpus -- the right that all Americans, and those prisoners under American control, have to challenge the government's reasons for imprisoning them -- a fundamental American right that underpins our individual freedoms and liberty.

Now, in three separate decisions, the Supreme Court has rejected the Bush-Cheney Administration's erosion of fundamental rights. It is these very protections and rights that set America apart from our enemies and make our nation a beacon of freedom and justice for the rest of the world.

It's time to repair the damage that the Bush-Cheney Administration has done in rolling back essential rights that have long guided America's conscience -- and the Supreme Court's ruling is yet one more step in that important process. It's another signal that -- at least in this instance -- we will not cringe in fear and walk away from bedrock American values.

Today's decision is a huge victory for justice, for the Constitution, and for the rule of law. Thank you so much for continuing to stand with me and fight for the rights and freedoms we hold dear.

Sincerely,

Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator

[ORDagnabbit]

1. blah blah blah....we wont impeach blah blah blah... we are in collusion with bushco.... blah blah

bunch of criminals the lot of them!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Prove collusion rationally, please.

Thanks.

[cali]

3. what ignorant garbaqe., Pat Leahy has never been remotely in collusion

with bushco. and he's certainly done far more to fight against them than you have.

[mmonk]

4. He and Dodd seem to be the ones

in the Senate that time and again go to the mat for the Constitution.

[cali]

8. it's just depressing to see DUers calling Senators

like Leahy, war criminals. Leahy does consistently go to the mat, and he does that in the face of having been sent anthrax.

[ORDagnabbit]

7. yeah cause you're omniscient and know who I am and what I do for a living. okay.

[cali]

9. I don't have to know what you do for a living as there are literally

no more than a handful of people in the country who have done more to oppose bushco than Leahy.

[ORDagnabbit]

10. okay...

Leahy: Well, impeachment is not going to happen.

http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p=729

http://www.washingtonstakeout.com/index.php/tags/people/patrick-leahy/

[indepat]

5. Senator Leahy and all of us need to be careful of what we say until the sender(s) of the

anthrax-laced letters is(are) identified, arrested, tried, convicted, and incarcerated. :D

[MiniMe]

6. It was a victory, but barely a victory.

That is the bad part.