Injunction junction, what's your function?
May 22, 2012 11:41 AM Subscribe
Judge Katherine B. Forest has blocked enforcement of controversial provisions in the NDAA FY 2012.(previously), (previously), (previously), and (previously)
Mother Jones reports, Glenn Greenwald finally chimes in, The Hill suddenly has an opinion, and the Lawfare blog is perplexed.
Here is a website that you can use to voice your concerns to your congressmen and women.
Mother Jones reports, Glenn Greenwald finally chimes in, The Hill suddenly has an opinion, and the Lawfare blog is perplexed.
Here is a website that you can use to voice your concerns to your congressmen and women.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This is probably worth presenting a bit more in-post context on since for the folks who have read the previouslies it may be an obvious followup but for anyone else this is super opaque and requires a bit of back reading to even know what the new developments are about. -- cortex
"National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), authorizing military detention without due process."
posted by Rocket Surgeon at 12:06 PM on May 22, 2012
posted by Rocket Surgeon at 12:06 PM on May 22, 2012
Alexa O’Brien is an independent journalist who writes for WL Central, regarding WikiLeaks, Guantanamo and other issues, and founded a website to work on America’s corrupted elections, U.S. Day of Rage. Kai Wargalla is a British activist who founded Occupy London and has done extensive work in advocating for WikiLeaks.
Birgitta Jónsdóttir...Birgitta has been an activist and a spokesperson for various groups, such as Wikileaks.
Thanks AGAIN Wikileaks. It's nice to see someone will stand up to the American government for what they try and get away with. Most of our legal establishment here is full of authoritarian power worshipers who swallow any explanation for a bad law if it comes from the political team they support so it's nice that some journalists will fight for what is right.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 12:06 PM on May 22, 2012 [3 favorites]
Birgitta Jónsdóttir...Birgitta has been an activist and a spokesperson for various groups, such as Wikileaks.
Thanks AGAIN Wikileaks. It's nice to see someone will stand up to the American government for what they try and get away with. Most of our legal establishment here is full of authoritarian power worshipers who swallow any explanation for a bad law if it comes from the political team they support so it's nice that some journalists will fight for what is right.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 12:06 PM on May 22, 2012 [3 favorites]
Can I get a one or two sentence summary of whatever this is?
Judge rules that dirty hippies like Noam Chomsky have a reasonable fear of being of being indefinitely detained under NDAA - due to its failure to define what constitutes "forces associated with Al-Qaeda" or "substantial support" of them - and thus, contrary to the government's argument - have standing to sue to block the law from being applied.
posted by Trurl at 12:07 PM on May 22, 2012 [1 favorite]
Judge rules that dirty hippies like Noam Chomsky have a reasonable fear of being of being indefinitely detained under NDAA - due to its failure to define what constitutes "forces associated with Al-Qaeda" or "substantial support" of them - and thus, contrary to the government's argument - have standing to sue to block the law from being applied.
posted by Trurl at 12:07 PM on May 22, 2012 [1 favorite]
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