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Originally Posted by loquitur
Roachboy, I would need to do some review of what I was reading some time ago about Iran. You might recall that the revolution wasn't entirely Islamic, and that Khomeini ended up doing purges. There were reports fairly recently of strife in Azeri and Kurdish regions of Iran - I'd need to take the time to dig them out.
The US has been self-correcting, but only over time, as I said. Separation of powers and some of the other fine structural features of our constitution go a long way (it was that insight that I was congratulating H&M on). I don't see any breakdown - didn't see it even during the four years that the Repubs controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. Of course, what you think is a "breakdown" can be disputed.
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It's a slooooowwwww, process, loquitur. I'm not a lawyer, but I could have predicted that the following, and much, much more negative backlash to the actions of Mr, Bush and his consigliere, needed to be delivered. It was obvious that it was justified, even when Bush cut down the time he devoted to death warrant review, from 30 minutes to 15 minutes each, more than ten years ago, with Gonzales at his side....in a state where it was known that legal aid for indigent condemned prisoners was so lacking, that one lawyer was known to have slept through parts of his clients capital murder trial. C'mon....you are a lawyer, why do you stress "under reacting", so often, with so many signs that it is an inadeqaute response that short changes our rule of law and secular society?
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Originally posted: May 15, 2007
Harvard classmates diss Gonzales
Posted by Andrew Zajac at 12:40 p.m. CDT
Sometimes that old school tie chafes.
More than 50 of Alberto Gonzales' Harvard Law School classmates have taken the unusual step of buying a quarter page ad in today's Washington Post to publicly woodshed him for "your cavalier handling of our freedoms time and again" as White House counsel and AG.
The ad lists Gonzales authorship of memos questioning the relevance of the Geneva Conventions, support for warrantless domestic spying and limits on habeas corpus protections and the politicized firings of U.S. attorneys as evidence of a dismissive approach to the rule of law.
Chicago attorney and Harvard Law Class of '82 secretary Jeff Smith offered some details of the effort in a statement_and_followon_email.
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