Did FDR have the same restriction on enemy combatants? If not, we have precedent.
Posted on 10/20/2004 4:10:53 PM PDT by ezfindit
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that terror suspects held in Cuba must be allowed to meet with lawyers, and that the government cannot monitor their conversations.
In a sharp rebuke of the Bush administration, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the administration "attempts to erode this bedrock principle" of attorney-client privacy with "a flimsy assemblage" of arguments.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that the 600 foreign-born men then held in the Navy-run prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could challenge their captivity in American courts.
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U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Who nominated this individual? I need not point out the inherent leftism of people with hypenated names.
Someone should remind this TRAITOR judge about this little news item from last week:
Pentagon: Ex-Detainees Return to Terror
10/17/2004 (AP)
WASHINGTON - Despite gaining their freedom by signing pledges to renounce violence, at least seven former prisoners of the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to terrorism, at times with deadly consequences.
At least two are believed to have died in fighting in Afghanistan, and a third was recaptured during a raid of a suspected training camp in Afghanistan, said Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico, a Pentagon spokesman. Others are at large.
Did FDR have the same restriction on enemy combatants? If not, we have precedent.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
Judge Kollar-Kotelly was appointed to the United States District Court in May 1997. She received a B.A. in 1965 from The Catholic University of America and a J.D. in 1968 from Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America. Following law school, she served as law clerk to Judge Catherine B. Kelly of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. From 1969 to 1972, Judge Kollar-Kotelly was an attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and then served as the chief legal counsel to Saint Elizabeths Hospital until 1984. She was appointed Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court in October 1984, and served as Deputy Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division from 1995 until her appointment to the federal bench. Judge Kollar-Kotelly has been a Fellow of the American Bar Association, a founding member of the Thurgood Marshall Inn of Court, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine in a joint teaching program on mental health and the law, and chair of the Board of the Art Trust for Superior Court. Judge Kotelly was appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to serve as a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure from June 2000 through May 2002, and in May 2002 Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Judge Kotelly to serve as Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court , which is a 7-year appointment.
Kollar-Kotelly, Colleen
Born 1943 in New York, NY
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by William J. Clinton on January 7, 1997, to a seat vacated by Harold H. Greene; Confirmed by the Senate on March 20, 1997, and received commission on March 26, 1997.
http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=1307
Hmmmmmmmm.... Now I wonder who nominated this judge, I wonder, I wonder...
Clintoon
I always thought it was a mistake to bring them to U.S. territory. We should have left them in a facility in Afghanistan under token Afghan control.
She's a Clintonista who, prior to this tripe, wrote a whole bunch of confusing decisions on election and campaign finance law that had to be fixed by higher courts.
Since when does U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly have jurisdiction over Cuban territory?
We can always just ship them out there pdq! By the time the libs wake up, these terrorists will be in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Uh huh. BIG mistake.
We should have shot them down like dogs on the battlefield. I knew once some Federal bench leftist go ahold of this it would be trouble.
With a name like that she can only be a leftist.
Sorry.... Gauntanamo Bay Naval Base IS US territory.
DANG! I was betting this freakazoid was a female judge! Too much mercy and not enough justice.
Clinton appointee perhaps ?
She's a Clinton administration appointee. Of course.
Like Kerry, she believes that Islamo-facists terrorist can be taught to work a job and live productive lives.
Right after they collect their virgins :)
Putin would probably be glad to cooperate and store them in an old Gulag for a moderate fee, and the contract labor there is experienced in interogation.
SO9
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