RTAmerica | October 3 2012
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court ruled that the US government can indefinitely detain anyone under the National Defense Authorization Act. This comes as a blow to the ruling that was given earlier this year, when US District Court Judge Catherine Forrest ruled that the NDAA was unconstitutional. So what does this mean for journalists and why was it overturned? Carl Mayer, attorney for The Mayer Law Group, joins us with the latest.
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Please repost this, and share to as many friends as you can – We need to call the president out on his ILLEGAL attempts to power grab – Congress cannot make a law that overrides the constitution without first amending the constitution. Also, the president has already threatened to VETO the protections included in the 2013 NDAA against indefinite detention – Lets let everyone know who he really is – Someone who will ignore the voices of every concerned American to serve his own goals.
http://www.change.org/petitions/barack-obama-president-of-the-united-states-stop-suing-to-keep-indefinite-detention-in-the-2012-ndaa