Political Quotes

“I oppose this for many of the same reasons I support the previous amendment. This is simply expanding a bad idea. I will point out that while it is true that it was contained in last year's National Defense Authorization Act, it is something that I, and a majority of Members on this side, never supported. So last year's law is not something that we wanted to see happen. There was a lot of other things in the National Defense Authorization Act which we did support, so we were forced to accept this not because we liked it, but because that is the way the system works occasionally. {time} 2010 This would simply expand that bad idea and deny an even larger segment of people access to Article 3 courts. And it's arguable whether or not it's constitutional. Because there's a little known fact about the Constitution: It doesn't just apply to U.S. citizens; it applies to persons in the United States. So once somebody from wherever they are is in the United States, the Constitution applies to them. And simply taking them out of the justice system and putting them in what I presume would have to be the military, since they are the ones that run our military commissions, I believe would violate the Constitution in this instance, taking away the rights from a person within the United States. But beyond all that, it's just a bad idea for the same reasons that I stated earlier. Our United States Constitution works.…”