Legal Commentary

Constitution to Remain Suspended -- Official

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Detainees Will Still Be Held, but Not Tried, Official Says. Fifty people to be held without trial.

Note the logic here — the people to be held without trial are those the administration is afraid might be found not guilty in a fair trial. That's why they have to be held without trial, see? We can't convict them!

Some of us still hold to the old-school notion that when the government imprisons people whose guilt it cannot prove, or will not attempt to prove, something as old as the Magna Carta and as fundamental as the rule of law has been violated.

What a shame that the Obama administration is no more willing to hew to this basic principle than its predecessor. Thus does evil become institutionalized.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on January 22, 2010 (boomark / email).