Richard Warnica, my favorite writer for the Tyee has a great video compilation centered on US General Attorney Alberto Gonzales' fall from power. It's hilarious.
"On a more serious track, Gonzales’s enduring legacy may be his relentless fight to undermine the right of habeas corpus, a bedrock principle of criminal law. Here, again before the Senate judiciary committee, Gonzales makes the unlikely argument that “There is no express grant of habeas in the constitution.” There is only “a prohibition against taking it away.”
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