Posted on 03/09/2010 9:15:29 PM PST by Dementio
A conservative advocacy organization in Washington, Keep America Safe, kicked up a storm last week when it released a video that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects.
But beyond the expected liberal outrage, the tactics of the group, which is run by Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, have also split the tightly knit world of conservative legal scholars. Many conservatives, including members of the Federalist Society, the quarter-century-old policy group devoted to conservative and libertarian legal ideals, have vehemently criticized Ms. Cheney’s video, and say it violates the American legal principle that even unpopular defendants deserve a lawyer.
“There’s something truly bizarre about this,” said Richard A. Epstein, a University of Chicago law professor and a revered figure among many members of the society. “Liz Cheney is a former student of mine — I don’t know what moves her on this thing,” he said.
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I can't help wondering what Adolph Ochs would think about the New York Times of today. ``A decent newspaper for decent people'' was one of the slogans making the final cut shortly after he acquired the paper. It certainly not apt for what that paper has become under his heirs.
That's because they're pussies!
I agree.
Yeah/ And how do we as “the people” feel comfortable with the fact that these lawyers aren’t like that woman who was the lawyer for the terrorist we’ve got locked up in NYC for the first Trade Center bombing, who was acting as his liaison with his terrorist connections, passing messages back and forth...*She* was just following the tradition that everyone deserves a lawyer”, right? She’s in prison now, isn’t she?
I am noty saying these lawyers have done anything wrong, but we have a right to know, to ease our consciences, to check them out...and Obama and holder, shielding all their appointees, from inquires and investigation, just adds to the suspicion that something stinks in D.C...from the head down.
Well since she left the university, she has developed a backbone and something called principles (she probably had them already, only this professor never saw it).
I'll back Liz Cheney over a bunch of self serving lawyers any day. These Al Quaeda seven, have no business being in the Depertmant of Justice, after referring to the legally constituted military tribunals a "kangaroo courts".
Any story from The NYT with a headline reporting on an issue "dividing conservatives" almost certainly is wishful thinking.
Now... Beck, being critical of Geert, calling him a right-wing extremist, that's as issue that divides conservatives!
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