Restoring our standing in the world starts with restoring our moral authority – it starts with restoring our Constitution. That is why I have introduced legislation establishing military commissions that will allow us to vigorously bring terrorists to justice while upholding our nation’s historic legal principles. History has shown us that even in the face of unprecedented horror, the two goals are not mutually exclusive. To the contrary, they are wholly dependent on one another. By insisting that suspected terrorists will be treated consistent with norms of our national law and the Geneva Conventions, to which we remain a signatory, I believe we can make the military commission process protect national security while upholding the international credibility so critical to securing America. If last century’s most heinous criminals could receive due process, there’s no reason in the world this century’s most heinous criminals should be denied it. That is why, this summer, I intend to make a major push to bring the Restoring the Constitution Act to a vote in the United States Senate and restore habeas corpus rights once and for all. It’s time we once again draw upon America’s historic principles and ideals to secure the country that created them.
Restoring Our Constitution: Away From Vengeance, Toward the Rule of Law
posted by Matt Browner-Hamlin, Campaign Blogger on June 8, 2007 - 1:23pm
Senator Dodd delivered the commencement address at Cardozo Law School in New York earlier today. The speech was titled "Restoring Our Constitution: Away From Vengeance, Toward the Rule of Law." Here is an excerpt of the speech, as prepared. The full text of the remarks can be read here.
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Senator Dodd,
You were involved in many Immigraton Bills in the past thirty years in office. All have failed to stop people from entering this country Illegally.
Enforcement of our current laws should come before any bill giving Illegal aliens rights in America.
This is not a difficult concept. The border will be secure and then at this point we have no Illegals coming into this country illegally. Enforcement against the document fraud and Identity thefts along with Illegal employment in a fifteen year period of time, we could decrease the illegal population presently here perhaps by 50 percent. Ten million of the 20 million gone. We do not need to do a "round up". Let them make the casual mistake and allow law enforcement (local, state and federal) to do their jobs. Then perhaps in fifteen years we could stop to look at a bill similar to this one. It is not even logical to plow forward, complicate, inflame and prejudize the current voting public. Unless the intent is to import voters to abate our votes.
By the way, be like Kennedy and post your views on Amnesty. I was disapointed when I called your DC office to get info sent to me on your views and was told they could not talk about it and hung up! Is this the way to treat your voters? I am a Registered Democrat. I am contemplating putting this information on all my invoices. As I have in the Connecticut area, approximately thirty thousand customers. Some may buy $5.00 worth of product; but, I give them top consideration as if they had bought $50,000.00. I know I am only one vote; but, I feel that I deserve a personal apology for the rudeness of your staff. As any good administrator, you are only as good as the people below you. Remember this!
On June 14th, perhaps you would like to lend your support to the Connecticut base, American Warrior holding a meeting at Governor Rell's with the distinguished former Senator Rob Simmons. Your choice.
having your constitution rights removed from you and there's nothing no one can do to help you them back not evening to vote,when you didn't do nothing wrong my mistake was hanging out with friends and being the only one who was eighteen years old, what by three months and to charged with a felony for something that I didn't do was not fair me shaun johnson is my name