what Obama has to tell the Supreme Court 30 days after he takes office

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03scotus.html?_r=2&th&emc=th


Early Test of Obama View on Power Over Detainees



Just a month after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration — that the president may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime.

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During the campaign, Mr. Obama made broad statements criticizing the Bush administration’s assertions of executive power. But now he must address a specific case, that of Ali al-Marri, a Qatari student who was arrested in Peoria, Ill., in December 2001. The Bush administration says Mr. Marri is a sleeper agent for Al Qaeda, and it is holding him without charges at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. He is the only person currently held as an enemy combatant on the mainland, but the legal principles established in his case are likely to affect the roughly 250 prisoners at Guantánamo.

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“If they adopt the Bush administration position, or some version of it,” said Brandt Goldstein, a professor at New York Law School, “it is going to be a moment of profound disappointment for everyone in the legal community and Americans generally who believe that the Bush administration has tried to turn the presidency into a monarchy.”
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the will he or won't he list grows longer.

[Bandit]

1. If Obama were to side with Bush* on the extremely important issue

I would feel as strongly about Impeaching him as I do about Bush*. The Constitution is either valid or not...

[Radical Activist]

2. "You're getting two new members"

That's what he should tell them.

[crickets]

3. "Profound disappointment" doesn't come close. -nt