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**Reocourgigiot** · 08-10-2010, 08:26 PM

No, it's Commander in Chief powers. The President doesn't have the authority to dictate legislation; nor does he have the authority to decide judicial cases. (And so on and so forth.)

Impeachment and removal is a political judgment -- as demonstrated recently by the Clinton impeachment trial. It certainly stands as a check on over-reaching by the executive.

So, let me get this straight: You believe that Thomas Jefferson acted illegally in militarily holding prisoners captured in the Barbary Wars and not submitting them to either a criminal conviction in the domestic courts or release?

I'm not familiar enough with the situation in the Barbary Wars to be able to say. What I'm saying is that I have extreme reservations about the capture and holding of individuals in sovereign nations within which we have no legitimate military presence, and who have no demonstrable active and immediate threat against the US or its interests, without trial, hearing, counsel, or other reasonable process. It goes against what I believe this country to be founded upon.

08-10-2010, 08:26 PM	#35
Reocourgigiot Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	No, it's Commander in Chief powers. The President doesn't have the authority to dictate legislation; nor does he have the authority to decide judicial cases. (And so on and so forth.) Impeachment and removal is a political judgment -- as demonstrated recently by the Clinton impeachment trial. It certainly stands as a check on over-reaching by the executive. So, let me get this straight: You believe that Thomas Jefferson acted illegally in militarily holding prisoners captured in the Barbary Wars and not submitting them to either a criminal conviction in the domestic courts or release? I'm not familiar enough with the situation in the Barbary Wars to be able to say. What I'm saying is that I have extreme reservations about the capture and holding of individuals in sovereign nations within which we have no legitimate military presence, and who have no demonstrable active and immediate threat against the US or its interests, without trial, hearing, counsel, or other reasonable process. It goes against what I believe this country to be founded upon.
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