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JDPriestly

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13. Yes. The concept of habeas corpus is just hobbling along, barely making it.

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #12)

Wed May 27, 2015, 02:17 PM

May 2015

We still have it domestically, but what the trade courts take from Americans is one of the elements basic to due process: the right to appear. Yes. Our government may pick an arbitrator/judge and may have some input into a third one. But we, the people, will not sit in the jury. We will have no say yet we will pay the damages awards against us.

Not good. A betrayal of a basic tenet of due process: the jury trial in civil matters over a certain value in federal courts.

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NPR on TPP: "It's A Beast" [View all] ucrdem May 2015 OP

Mahalo ucr~ Cha May 2015 #1

Aloha Cha! ucrdem May 2015 #2

Nice perspective.. May we get the best deal possible for all concerned.. Cha May 2015 #3

I strongly disagree. It is the TPP that will lead to disagreements, tension and quite JDPriestly May 2015 #6

Thank you, JDPriestly. I agree with your take. Enthusiast May 2015 #7

What case did we lose? ucrdem May 2015 #14

World Trade Org. decided agaunst us last week om meat labellimg. JDPriestly May 2015 #17

That press release is three years old. nt ucrdem May 2015 #19

Where did you get "decisive vote" is picked by corporate plaintiff. Hoyt May 2015 #26

Yes - A Job Killing Beast cantbeserious May 2015 #4

+1 Enthusiast May 2015 #8

+1000 nt Javaman May 2015 #11

The investor arbitration courts are very dangerous. JDPriestly May 2015 #5

Traditional American conservatism ended when sovereignty was quietly disposed of. nt Eleanors38 May 2015 #12

Yes. The concept of habeas corpus is just hobbling along, barely making it. JDPriestly May 2015 #13

USTR on ISDS: "the United States has never lost a case" ucrdem May 2015 #15

False. JDPriestly May 2015 #18

That document is three years old. ucrdem May 2015 #20

This was in the news last week, I am pretty sure. JDPriestly May 2015 #21

Okay it looks like the Obama admin appealed this decision last Nov. and got turned down ucrdem May 2015 #22

These courts do not respect our right as a nation to pass the laws that we the people want. JDPriestly May 2015 #23

Traditional English law ucrdem May 2015 #24

This agreement imposes on the signators in other countries obligations they cannot enforce JDPriestly May 2015 #25

We are not required to change the labeling law under the WTO ruling. Hoyt May 2015 #27

Yes. A nasty job-killing beast. And cutting Medicare in order to "retrain" those who lose jobs. djean111 May 2015 #9

Gutting medicare -- Pitting seniors against workers -- God forbid they'd raise taxes on bilionaires whathehell May 2015 #10

Now that IS desparate. ucrdem May 2015 #16

"There's nothing about Medicare in TPP" whathehell May 2015 #28

Not. It's a gimmick dreamed up by this guy's pals: ucrdem May 2015 #29

Not approved by the Senate, whathehell May 2015 #30