Just asking a question, because it's worrisome if it's true, given Barack's friendly way of saying I can kill whomever I want, kind of unDemocratic if you ask me. Googled this after I was listening to NPR today that Kagan has no problem with indefinite detention:
Solicitor General Nomination
On January 5, 2009, President-elect Barack Obama announced he would nominate Kagan to be Solicitor General. Before this appointment she had limited courtroom experience. She had never argued a case at trial, and had not argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. This is not uncommon, however, as at least two previous Solicitors General, Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr, had no previous appellate experience at the Supreme Court, though Starr served as a Circuit Court Judge prior to acting as Solicitor General.
At her confirmation hearing, Kagan also drew criticism for arguing that battlefield law, including indefinite detention without a trial, could apply outside of traditional battlefields...
Kagan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 19, 2009, by a vote of 61 to 31. She made her first appearance in oral argument before the Supreme Court on September 9, 2009, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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Now if'n I ain't mistaken, all this lock them up throw away the key WITHOUT A TRIAL business started with George Bush, and now Obama is bringing it to new heights of fascist glory. Oh yea, but he's clean-cut and nicer-looking, not like our coke-snorting boy George. Well I got news for ya'll. Fascists with friendly faces can yank your rights away the same as those with mean ones.
Ok, I'll step up to the plate and support my use of the f word.
Facisim: an authoritarian form of government.
Authoritarian, includes:
-- rule of men, not rule of law;
-- the informal and unregulated exercise of political power;[3]
-- No guarantee of civil liberties
Hullo? You tell me where the shoe doesn't fit.