Tuesday, June 15, 2010

The U.S. wins the right to abduct innocent people with impunity

by Glenn Greenwald from Salon. I guess all the high school civics textbooks will have to be edited to remove the part about "checks and balances" in US government. After the recent US court rulings it is now clear that the Executive branch rules with impunity :
Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of his lawsuit on the ground that courts have no right to interfere in these decisions of the Executive Branch.  That was the decision which the U.S. Supreme Court let stand today, ending Arar's attempt to be compensated for what was done to him.