Forgive me on being a week late with this. Ramesh Ponnuru of the National Review ireported this:
"[The Cato Institute's President Ed] Crane says he was disappointed with Romney's answer to his question the other night. Crane asked if Romney believed the president should have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens with no review. Romney said he would want to hear the pros and cons from smart lawyers before he made up his mind. Crane said that he had asked Giuliani the same question a few weeks ago. The mayor said that he would want to use this authority infrequently."
Glenn Greenwald ran with this in Your modern-day Republican Party:
"Two of the three leading Republican candidates for President either embrace or are open to embracing the idea that the President can imprison Americans without any review, based solely on the unchecked decree of the President. And, of course, that is nothing new, since the current Republican President not only believes he has that power but has exercised it against U.S. citizens and legal residents in the U.S. -- including those arrested not on the "battlefield," but on American soil."
He goes on to quote Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and in an update Winston Churchill on this same basic concept that Antonin Scalia (!) expressed: "The very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive." Honestly, what happened to this country?
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