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By Dave Lindorff

With habeas corpus a thing of the past, with arrest and detention without charge permitted, with torture and spying without court oversight all the rage, with prosecutors free to tape conversations between lawyers and their clients, and with the judicial branch now infested by rightwing judges who would have been at home in courtrooms of the Soviet Union or Hitler's Germany, for all they seem to care about common law tradition, the only real thing holding the line against absolute tyranny in the U.S. has been the jury.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18208.htm

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The Padilla precedent
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w30.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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