"Even the dissent had a different standard."
"I think the foreign law matter is a big deal to me."
"But is it not true that when the Constitution was written, it made provision for the habeas corpus, that it would never interpret it as applying to enemy combatants that were captured on the battlefie..."
"I am not sure I am comfortable with a judge who thinks things are just a series of perspectives."
"Just because you may like the direction somebody bent the Constitution this year in this case does not mean you are going to like it in the future."
"President Bush actually relied on the historic interpretation."
"Mr. Halbrook, you wrote the brief on behalf of 55 Senators in the Heller case and your view, I guess, was accepted."
"Under no circumstances should the judiciary become the handmaiden of the executive."
"Regardless of whether or not the precedent justified the decision in Maloney, and I think we can argue about that, but the point is that decision would eviscerate effectively the protection, the const..."
"I have seen some of that in our Committee. Could you briefly give me this answer and see if I am correct?"
"Will you do that, just for the record?"
"What precautions were taken to ensure that the renditions and any interrogations that were going on... complied with the law?"
"Thank you, Madam Chairman."
"Do you believe you have that?"
"Does the Department have a legislative plan regarding these expiring provisions of the Adam Walsh Act, which I think and others thought was a good piece of legislation?"
"the very idea of taking money from victims and law enforcement officers to educate and comfort terrorists, pedophiles, and career criminals I think is an abomination."
"As a result of this lack of cooperation, according to the Government Accountability Office, our Government's war on drugs is not as productive as it should be."
"Are you going to be assertive in this area to make sure that the expertise of Justice is shared and used in this area?"
