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The Padilla Shuffle: preempting a Supreme Court challenge it couldn't win, the Bush administration has preserved its unconstitutional power to imprison U.S. citizens at presidential whim.(ON THE HOME FRONT)
Jose Padilla is an ex-convict, a former urban gangster, and a convert to the most radical variant of Islam. He may well have been part of a conspiracy to "murder, kidnap, and maim" people living abroad, as the federal government alleges in an indictment filed on November 22. With respect to questions of civil liberties, however, Padilla is a living precedent: he is a U.S. citizen who was imprisoned for more than three years, without trial or legal recourse of any kind, through a presidential order designating him an "enemy combatant."
In July 2002, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, while visiting Moscow, announced that Padilla had been detained on presidential ...
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