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Obama administration calls for halt to Texas execution
Houston Chronicle ^
Posted on 07/01/2011 5:17:15 PM PDT by WoodlandsTXFreeper2
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration took the unusual step Friday of asking the Supreme Court to stop Texas from executing a Mexican citizen convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl.
The administration said the court should delay the planned July 7 execution of Humberto Leal for up to six months to give Congress time to consider legislation that would directly affect Leal's case.
The 38-year-old native of Monterrey wasn't told he could contact the Mexican Consulate after his arrest in the murder of Adria Sauceda. His lawyers say police violated an international treaty by not telling Leal he could have consular assistance.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; arrestobama; fobama; impeachoabama; mexico; mexicution; texacution; texas
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To: plain talk
and why should the Supreme Court take orders from Obama?Exactly. I'm pretty sure THEY'VE heard of separation of powers.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:29:39 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: berdie
Yes, there is precedent for this. The Bush administation filed a similar brief in the Medellin case.
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
Get out of Texas, Obama, and stay out.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:30:56 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: AuntB; Lydian; Tennessee Nana; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; ...
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:31:15 PM PDT
by
Liz
( A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
What is Mexico complaining about? The victim was a Mexican and justice will be served for her.
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
Very interesting. Zer0 just handed Perry a chance to make himself look like a leader (e.g., by telling Zer0 to go fly a kite) and thus boost his undeclared presidential campaign. Could this have been a deliberate move on Zer0’s part?
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:31:27 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
The administration said the court should delay the planned July 7 execution of Humberto Leal for up to six months to give Congress time to consider legislation that would directly affect Leal's case. What the **** are the ***holes in Congress going to do? Make it legal for Mexican nationals to rape and murder 16 year old AMERICAN girls? I wouldn't put it past that bunch of lowlifes.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:31:34 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2; All
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:31:34 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
This is a golden opportunity for Rick Perry to vault to the top of the Republican heap by defying Obama and the SC if necessary. If he tells Obama to shove it he becomes an instant hero to all the average Joe’s out here in middle America
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:31:42 PM PDT
by
slumber1
(Don't taze me bro!)
Comment #30 Removed by Moderator
To: snowrip; All
Dear president Barack Zero Obama, Texas will have Humberto Leal, SHOVEL READY, July 8, 2011!
Signed the legal residents of the great state of Texas.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:33:10 PM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
(Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
This emmer effer is behaving like satan. He knows his time is short so he is inflicting as much evil and suffering upon us as he possibly can because he knows his time is short and is about to come to an abrupt end.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:33:14 PM PDT
by
NoGrayZone
("Islamophobia: The irrational fear of being beheaded." Andrew Klavan of PJTV)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:33:46 PM PDT
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
I wonder what her family thinks about this and if they voted for Obama
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:34:32 PM PDT
by
funfan
To: cripplecreek
Start killing him now and finish up in 6 months.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:34:46 PM PDT
by
sbMKE
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
Let me get this straight. The 0bama admin says that checking the immigration status of arrested perps violates their rights. And not informing immigrants of certain things is bad too.
So just how the hell are the police to know if the perp is an immigrant, so they can inform of his special rights, if they can't check to see if he is an immigrant in the first place.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:35:15 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
Doesn’t Texas use the chair? BO has made most of the drugs used for lethal injection impossible to get or illegal to use.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:35:19 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
Soooo..Obama is all for saving a convicted murderer from due punishment....2012 is sunk for this idiot.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:35:27 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
The court should deny the case and move on.
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:35:51 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: WoodlandsTXFreeper2
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posted on
07/01/2011 5:36:22 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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