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title: RTF 9th Amendment
categories:
- culture
content-tags:
- government
- politics
- aside
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> ...the Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.
> - [Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the Senate Judiciary Committee][1] (transcript not available online, see coverage by the [San Francisco Chronicle][2] and [Los Angeles Times][3])

   [1]: http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=2473&wit_id=3936
   [2]: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/24/MNGDONO11O1.DTL
   [3]: http://www.latimes.com/wireless/avantgo/la-na-habeas30jan30,0,5990377.story


The best reaction to this attitude towards habeas corpus I can imagine is [Mark Jaquith's][4]: it wasn't long before he went from “pedantic tool" to “the reason for the 2nd Amendment" in my mind.

   [4]: http://txfx.net/
