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The Northerner

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Fri May 18, 2012, 04:13 PM May 2012

TYT: Unconstitutional NDAA Provision Blocked by Federal Judge



Via The Huffington Post: "A day before Congress weighs an amendment to end indefinite military detentions in the U.S., a federal judge Wednesday ruled the law that allows the practice unconstitutional. Saying the measure has "chilling impact on First Amendment rights," U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, of New York's Eastern District, found that a group of reporters and activists who brought the lawsuit had no way of knowing whether they could be subjected to it. That makes it an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment's free speech right and the Fifth Amendment's right to due process, Forrest said in a written opinion. The lead plaintiffs -- Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges of the Nation Institute and Tangerine Bolen, who runs the website RevolutionTruth -- argued that they conceivably could be grabbed under the law because they deal with sources that U.S. authorities may deem to fall under the law, Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more from Michael McAuliff: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mcauliff
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TYT: Unconstitutional NDAA Provision Blocked by Federal Judge (Original Post) The Northerner May 2012 OP
Most House Republicans approve of locking us up and throwing away the key Eric J in MN May 2012 #1

Eric J in MN

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1. Most House Republicans approve of locking us up and throwing away the key
Fri May 18, 2012, 04:14 PM
May 2012

...without trial, after calling us terrorists:

NDAA Amendment Vote (No=No trial just prison):
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll270.xml

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