The recent Supreme Court decision of Boumediene v. Bush concerning the habeas corpus rights of enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Naval Base illustrates the need for a president who will nominate jurists that follow the Constitution and not their own political ideology. For the first time, the Court has now extended U.S. constitutional rights to foreign nationals residing outside the country. What's all the more galling is that the recipients of this right were engaged in killing U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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Now, the Supreme Court has decided, punishment for child rapists must be 'proportional.' In particular, the Supreme Court - that bastion of conservatism, according to the Left - ruled this week in Kennedy v. Louisiana that child rapists could not be sentenced to the death penalty. '[T]he death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child,' wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy. Child molestation and other similar crimes, said Kennedy, 'may be as devastating in their harm, as here, but 'in terms of moral depravity and of the injury to the person and to the public,' they cannot be compared to murder in their 'severity and irrevocability.''
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Questions have been raised over using sniffer dogs to search Muslim passengers at train stations following complaints that it is against their religion.
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Mr. Chairman and other distinguished Members, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today. In my testimony, I would like to (1) make the case that the public policy issues regarding searches and inspections at border ports of entry and exit (including searching electronic equipment, such as computers and personal digital devices) are more important than the narrow legal issues, (2) explain why searches are an important component of effective border security strategy and advocate for continuing to allow federal entities broad discretionary authority in implementing the searches and inspections at the border, and (3) offer some specific proposals on ensuring that border searches and inspections remain an efficient and effective component of border security strategy. ...
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