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1st amendment, 4th amendment, 5th amendment, govenrment corruption, national defense authorization act, police state
Some good news, for once, on the endless war on [your pet cause here]: U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan ruled the indefinite detention provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 was unconstitutional not due to the obvious issue — the breach of due process and the right to a speedy trial, but because law wasn’t “specific enough.”
Obama supporters might note that the administration is fighting the ruling, so if you think the Lightbringer gives a crap about your civil rights, you are delusional.
Additionally, Justice Forrest writes,
“First Amendment rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and cannot be legislated away…This Court rejects the Government’s suggestion that American citizens can be placed in military detention indefinitely, for acts they could not predict might subject them to detention….That is no small question bandied about amongst lawyers and a judge steeped in arcane questions of constitutional law; it is a question of defining an individual’s core liberties…”
