Comments on: Wider inquiry into detainee confinement ordered http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/ The Supreme Court of the United States blog Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:56:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: steve jaros http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/comment-page-1/#comment-11702 steve jaros Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:54:07 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/#comment-11702 are slippery-slope arguments ever useful? are slippery-slope arguments ever useful?

]]> By: Eric M. Freedman http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/comment-page-1/#comment-11701 Eric M. Freedman Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:45:14 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/#comment-11701 From: A Man for All Seasons Alice While you talk, he's gone! More And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law! Roper So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law! More Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper I'd cut down every law in England to do that! More Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake. -Eric M. Freedman From: A Man for All Seasons

Alice While you talk, he’s gone!

More And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law!

Roper So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!

More Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

More Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and if you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

-Eric M. Freedman

]]> By: steve jaros http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/comment-page-1/#comment-11700 steve jaros Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:05:14 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/wider-inquiry-into-detainee-confinement-ordered/#comment-11700 "How can an enemy invoke the constitution? His goal is to annihilate it ... In a state of war, courts and legal proceedings are only for members of the same side, not the enemy". - Robespierre “How can an enemy invoke the constitution? His goal is to annihilate it … In a state of war, courts and legal proceedings are only for members of the same side, not the enemy”.

- Robespierre

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