{"id":697,"date":"2006-09-29T01:04:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T07:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/29\/inviting-justice\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T01:13:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T07:13:57","slug":"inviting-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/29\/inviting-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the wake of the Senate’s passage of the tribunals\/torture bill, officially the Military Commissions Act, it’s tempting to point out that their vote to deny prisoners’ the right to file writs of habeas corpus<\/i>, to argue that they have been wrongly imprisoned, actually sets the judicial system back 700 years. Think pre-Magna Carta. <\/p>\n

Now, if that sort of intellectual case doesn’t work for you, try this one, found in some comments to a Louisville Courier-Journal article: <\/p>\n

Who would Jesus torture?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the wake of the Senate’s passage of the tribunals\/torture bill, officially the Military Commissions Act, it’s tempting to point out that their vote to deny prisoners’ the right to file writs of habeas corpus, to argue that they have been wrongly imprisoned, actually sets the judicial system back 700 years. Think pre-Magna Carta. Now, … <\/p>\n

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