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Syrinx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:38 PM Original message |
Isn't the Telecom Immunity bill unconstitutional? |
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dchill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Unconstitutional? Apparently. |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, I think it's intended to mean that no ex post facto law can penalize someone. |
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warren pease (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Looks like it applies both ways... |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:43 PM Response to Original message |
3. Your name has been dutifully taken down. That is all. |
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kanrok (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. Ex post facto laws don't apply to civil cases, only criminal |
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warren pease (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Couldn't this be treated as a criminal or civil case, though? |
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NoGOPZone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. You're right. Calder vs Bull, decided even before Marshall was CJ |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. S.2248 - FISA Amendments Act of 2007 |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:46 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Right, and this isn't the same thing anyway. This is retroactive immunity, |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. What difference would that make to our current Senate, House, or Supreme Court? |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
6. no one in charge seems to give a flying f*ck about the constitution |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. YES, but so was appointing BUSH Resident Executive in 2000! Any other questions? |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
13. Eh. Constitution, Schmonstitution. |
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MonkeyFunk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-12-08 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
14. No |
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