Reply #121: absolutely not [View All]

[spamlet2002]

obama has already shown himself to be willing to take up the mantle of cheney's unitary executive, continuing the power for indefinite detention, and so forth. simply consult the excellent reporting at firedoglake, emptywheel, and of course glenn greenwald.

if he had tried to his current arguments for his behavior in his constitutional law lectures, he would have been laughed out of the hall. guaranteed.

interesting you mention the hague, because we wouldn't have to wait if obama simply asked his AG to uphold the laws already on the books pertaining to torture and conspiracy.

so i ask you: what kind of constitutional lawyer is too busy looking forward to defend egregious constitutional abuses of the last decade?