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Chris Hedges: NDAA Lawsuit Update

 

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Chris Hedges:

Our attorneys asked the Supreme Court to consider lifting the �stay� on our injunction against Section 1021 and indefinite detention. As you�ll recall, we won our lawsuit last September and were granted a worldwide injunction against this provision � ensuring people could not be indefinitely detained under the sweeping and unchecked scope of the NDAA.

Despite having issued a signing statement in January of 2012 claiming he would not use these powers against American citizens, Obama immediately appealed Judge Forrest�s ruling and our win, then went further and asked her to grant a stay on the injunction, essentially �lifting� that injunction. She refused.

Next, the DOJ attorneys went to the second circuit court and asked them to lift the stay as well, claiming �irreparable harm� would be incurred by the US if the government did not have these unchecked powers. The second circuit court judges granted their request and put a stay on our injunction.

We applied to both Justice Ginsberg (who said no) and Justice Scalia (who said yes) to convene a conference of the entire Supreme Court to consider lifting that stay and restoring our injunction. They told us yesterday that they will not lift the stay � indefinite detention under the NDAA stands.



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