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Kagan: "Enemy Combatants" May Be Held Without Trial
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Opposition to her nomination was mitigated in part by her agreement with the previous administration’s position that “enemy combatants” may be held without criminal procedural safeguards, including the right to a speedy trial. ...

We’ll just call it “Presivangelism” - or maybe “Ovangelism”
Sister Toldjah — ... Semi-sorta Related:  Via the LAT: Obama’s solicitor general nominee says ‘enemy combatants’ can be held without trial (gasp!) ...

“Solicitor general nominee says ‘enemy combatants’ can be held without trial”
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Via (hee) Dissenting Justice (hee-hee), via (hee-hee-hee) Instapundit: Solicitor general nominee says ‘enemy combatants’ can be held without trial Reporting from Washington — Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing ...

More Change We Can Believe In Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
The Agitator — Sigh. Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges… Last year, the Supreme ...

M’Kay, Then
Right Wing Nation — Via RS, this interesting tidbit from the LA Times. Reporting from Washington — Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war ...

How Is This HopeAndChange?
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Linky, link link : Reporting from Washington -- Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama's choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges. If confirmed as U.S. ...

Morning Briefing for February 12, 2009
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists without charges. Never mind that Barack Obama said otherwise on the campaign trail. SOURCE ...

How Is This HopeAndChange?
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Linky, link link: Reporting from Washington — Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, President Obama’s choice to represent his administration before the Supreme Court, told a key Republican senator Tuesday that she believed the government could hold suspected terrorists without trial as war prisoners. She echoed comments by Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. during his confirmation hearing last month. Both agreed that the United States was at war with Al Qaeda and suggested the law of war allows the government to capture and hold alleged terrorists ...

I Swear
Shakesville — ... I swear I hoped things would be different this time. I swear who knew the whole earth was a battlefield and who knows how long this ...

I Swear
N/A — ... I swear I hoped things would be different this time.  I swear who knew the whole earth was a battlefield and who knows how long this ...

Obama Plans Indefinite Military Detention of Terrorism Suspects
Hit & Run — ... At her confirmation hearing last week, Elena Kagan, President Obama's nominee for solicitor general, agreed that someone like the suspected Al Qaeda financier captured in the Philippines could be subject to indefinite military detention. She also agreed with Lindsey that "America needs to get ready for this proposition that some people are going to be detained as enemy combatants, not criminals, and there will be a process to determine whether or not they should be let go based on the view that we're at war, and it would be foolish to release somebody from ...

ChangeWatch
Stones Cry Out — ... Holding "enemy combatants" without trial?  Obama’s nominee for Solicitor General, Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan, says yes we can!  (And Obama & Holder ...