{"id":6168,"date":"2011-05-31T16:01:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2011-05-31T16:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T21:01:20","slug":"supreme-court-rules-that-law-and-logic-dont-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/05\/31\/supreme-court-rules-that-law-and-logic-dont-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules That Law And Logic Don&#8217;t Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report from <em>The\u00a0 Christian Science Monitor<\/em> headlined, <a title=\"The Christian Science Montiro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Justice\/2011\/0531\/Supreme-Court-US-Muslim-cannot-sue-Ashcroft-for-2003-detention-ordeal\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Supreme Court: US Muslim cannot sue Ashcroft for 2003 detention ordeal<\/strong><\/a>, leads to the stunning conclusion about holding people as a material witness and torturing them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEfficient and evenhanded application of the law demands that we look to whether the arrest is objectively justified, rather than to the motive of the arresting officer,\u201d Justice Scalia wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the following circumstances are objective reason to believe that a person was fleeing to avoid testimony:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The material witness warrant used to justify the Kidd\u2019s detention contained substantial errors. It said Kidd was booked on a one-way, first-class flight to Saudi Arabia. (He held a round-trip coach ticket.) It also said Kidd\u2019s testimony was crucial in the ongoing visa fraud investigation in Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the aggressive actions taken by the government, Kidd was never called as a witness in the visa fraud case or any other case. Nor was he charged with a crime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently the Supreme Court and I don&#8217;t use the same version of the English language.\u00a0 Perhaps we do need an English only law that applies only to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from The\u00a0 Christian Science Monitor headlined, Supreme Court: US Muslim cannot sue Ashcroft for 2003 detention ordeal, leads to the stunning conclusion about holding people as a material witness and torturing them. \u201cEfficient and evenhanded application of the law demands that we look to whether the arrest is objectively justified, rather than to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}