NDAA: No Detaining Americans Allowed, Says Federal Judge

President Barack Obama must surely rue the day he appointed Katherine Forrest to the federal bench. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest issued a preliminary injunction against Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the section that gives the President "the absolute power to arrest and detain citizens of the United States [and of other countries] without their being informed of any criminal charges, without a trial on the merits of those charges, and without a scintilla of the due process safeguards protected by the Constitution of the United States," in the words of The New American's Joe Wolverton, II. Wolverton should know: He was a member of the legal team representing the plaintiffs.

webmaster@jbs.org (Michael Tennant) 19 May, 2012

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Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/11430-ndaa-no-detaining-americans-allowed-says-federal-judge
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