The American Gulag: Packing the federal courts
As a measure of the the Bush administrations commitment to ending detainee abuse and torture, a top justice dept. lawyer who is responsible for drafting the questioning guidelines that led to the torture in Guantanamo and Abu Graib is now being proposed for a position on the top federal court of the US. Clearly, the administration feels that it needs to pack the court with people who would be willing to allow the executive branch to continue it's abuses without question by the federal court. Even with two recent appointments by Bush to the Supreme Court, the executive branch was severely reprimanded for overstepping it's authority. I guess they'll just have to make sure there are no judges in the federal court system that will question them.
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