Statements about Legal Issues
Reconciliation was used "for tax cuts for the rich twice under Bush."
"Holly Turner... still takes her homestead (property tax) exemption in Fort Worth."
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
"We have killed lots of innocent people in the state of Texas."
The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.
"For the first time in history, my administration posts our White House visitors online."
"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
AARP is "the largest reseller of insurance in the country" and "has a vested interest in seeing that the market for reselling supplemental insurance expands."
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Only 15 percent of drug users are African-American, yet 74 percent of all drug offenders sentenced to prison are black
"Four percent of American citizens are black males, but they are 35 percent of murder victims."
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
"Obama's Justice-designate Sotomayor threw out (the New Haven firefighters') lawsuit in a sneaky, unsigned opinion -- the judicial equivalent of 'talk to the hand.'"
"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
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