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Yee of Much Faith

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Captain James J. Yee is a former US Army Chaplain and graduate of West Point who served as the Muslim Chaplain for the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that would become controversial for its treatment of detainees designated as “enemy combatants” by the U.S. government.

Let them enforce it

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In 1832, the US Supreme Court ruled that the state of Georgia could not impose its state laws upon Cherokee tribal lands.

The decision, rendered by Justice John Marshall, declared the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to be illegal, unconstitutional and against treaties made.

Torture memo to McCain

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Berkeley law professor John C. Yoo is at the center of Bush administration interrogation tactics which were considered cruel, inhumane, and torturous– not to mention largely ineffective as prisoners subject to torture will admit to anything their captors desire.

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