Saturday, March 19, 2005

Congress involvement in Schiavo

According to CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who is a lawyer, there is a provision in the Constitution called “a bill of attainder,” meaning under the Constitution, Congress is NOT allowed to pass a law directed at a specific person.
“That was dealt with in the American Revolution because the British Parliament had, you know, passed laws saying John Adams, for example, is a criminal,” Toobin said. “Under our Constitution, we can’t make laws about specific people. So, that would be an issue in the challenge to this law, if it became effect.”
There is no question that what Congress, led by Tom DeLay and other ultra-conservative Republicans, is doing is CLEARLY unconstitutional.

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