Secular Café: Roadblock to Obama's Detention Law

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Roadblock to Obama's Detention Law Sep 18th 2012, 11:38 http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runnin...s_ndaa_law.php It remains unfathomable to me why Democrats, who to their great credit are often concerned about civil liberties and rights of the individual, chose to support Obama this year, but anyway.. The NDAA is one of the many reasons I don't like Obama, but it appears to finally facing legal challenges. This is a good development, I think. I assume most of you think so as well. Thoughts/ From the article Quote: The Obama administration's efforts to enshrine sweeping 9/11-era rollbacks of civil liberties and constitutional rights as federal law hit a serious roadblock yesterday, as a federal judge struck down clauses of the National Defense Authorization Act as unconstitutional. The offending section of the NDAA, signed by Obama on New Year's Eve last year, grants the government the power to put citizens in military detention indefinitely and without the usual recourse to civil courts...

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