{"id":333,"date":"2006-06-29T22:58:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T21:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=333"},"modified":"2006-06-29T22:58:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T21:58:52","slug":"the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wing nuts &#8220;Lie and Die&#8221; party are now predicting that congress will make illegal that which was legal for people and events.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/counterterrorismblog.org\/2006\/06\/prediction_bush_congress_will.php\">Prediction: Bush &#038; Congress Will Override the Supreme Court&#8217;s Gitmo Decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only trouble is that the U.S. constitution which most of the GOP Lie and Die have not read has a little passage call Article 9<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_9:_Limits_on_Congress\"><br \/>\nSection 9: Limits on Congress&#8230;.<br \/>\nNo bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ex_post_facto\">An ex post facto law is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hence, if congress passes a law to bail out Bush, it can not be used in the instance of the GITMO decision.  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wing nuts &#8220;Lie and Die&#8221; party are now predicting that congress will make illegal that which was legal for people and events. Prediction: Bush &#038; Congress Will Override the Supreme Court&#8217;s Gitmo Decision The only trouble is that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=333\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Rule of Law<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24,25,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracies","category-freedom","category-liberty","category-patriot-act","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}