[Peace-discuss] Obama's war

[C. G. Estabrook]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/16-6

"In 1957, the US Supreme Court decided the case of Reid v. Covert in which this ... question was conclusively decided: does the Bill of Rights restrict what the US Government does to US citizens on foreign soil? The Court answered the question as decisively and unambiguously as the English language permits:

"'...we reject the idea that, when the United States acts against citizens abroad, it can do so free of the Bill of Rights. The United States [government] is entirely a creature of the Constitution. Its power and authority have no other source. It can only act in accordance with all the limitations imposed by the Constitution. When the Government reaches out to punish a citizen who is abroad, the shield which the Bill of Rights and other parts of the Constitution provide to protect his life and liberty should not be stripped away just because he happens to be in another land.'"

The president is bound by the Constitution. And the Congress fails in its sworn duty when it fails to impeach a president who violates it. 

--CGE
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