Comments on: Obama’s Ship of Fools Will Need Immunity, Pardons Before Serving

By: Ron Robinson

Ron Robinson — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:18:56 +0000

And these are just the dumb types of lawyers who would get policy enacted to lower what they can bill their clients (better to spend years fighting policy and render big bills)

If they are that dumb, then they will certainly be willing to serve this administration…..and be prosecuted later when Obama’s priorities shift or he sees how his policies are harming his polling….

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:43:29 +0000

Mr. Obama we hardly knew ya…
Swept in on a tidal wave of hope & change it looked as
if you could do no wrong. 100 glorious leftist days.
For 100 days the left has basked in your warm amber glow
of socialist spirit. A socialist spirit that seemed so strong
not even the strongest conservative could overcome it.
Yet the cracks in the hull of the goodship Obama are
starting to show. Only 100 days and the goodship Obama
seems to have a broken rudder as it aimlessly streams around
in the hope & change harbor, unable to lift anchor to steam
ahead into the uncharted waters of socialist America.

Ah yes laddies the goodship Obama is full of holes and taking
water on from the hope & change harbor. It won’t be long before the conservative pirates jump aboard and start slitting throats……

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:28:52 +0000

From Michelle Malkin

[A]s nearly 100 of the remaining detainees are Yemenis, reflecting that country’s refusal to assure security for repatriated Yemenis, note that AG nominee Eric Holder is a senior partner with Covington & Burling, a prestigious Washington, D.C. law firm, which represents 17 Yemenis currently held at Gitmo.

From the C & B website:

The firm represents 17 Yemeni nationals and one Pakistani citizen held at Guantánamo Bay. The Supreme Court will soon review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that ordered the dismissal of a number of habeas petitions filed by Guantánamo detainees; some of our clients are petitioners in the Supreme Court case. We expect to play a substantial role in the briefing. We also plan to petition the Supreme Court to hear our Pakistani client’s appeal from the D.C. Circuit’s order dismissing his case. Further, we are pursuing relief in the D.C. Circuit under the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 for all of our clients. On a separate front, we filed amicus briefs and coordinated the amicus effort in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld in which the Supreme Court in the summer of 2006 invalidated President Bush’s military commissions and in which we have obtained favorable rulings that our clients have rights under the Fifth Amendment and the Geneva Conventions.