"I think, as you noted, 5 percent, people estimate, of workers in America are illegal, so this is not over-catching the people, apparently."
"The presumption came into place on July 20th of this year that these cases would be tried in Federal courts, and that inevitably requires a far more--a far larger increase in Miranda warnings than eve..."
"Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics."
"Mr. Kris, the MCA allows the United States to seek protective orders for information that the United States has supplied to the defense through discovery."
"In the Federal civilian system, as well as in the vast majority of the States which currently have capital punishment, the death penalty can be imposed after a guilty plea."
"Mr. Kris, I understand that there is an ambiguity in the MCA as to whether it allows presentations in support of a motion to protect classified evidence to be presented ex parte."
"Mr. Kris, if Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, for example, began to have doubts about the heavenly reward..."
"Mr. Kris, the committee-reported NDAA requires that, before the government may seek protection for classified information..."
"I think the President said it best when he said that we need to be using all instruments of national power against this adversary, and that includes military commissions."
"As the President has stated, the United States is a nation of laws and we must abide by court rulings."
"Mr. Kris, the courts' interpretation of the MCA makes it harder to pursue a capital case..."