Short Quiz on Bush's Law: The Remaking of Amn Justice

[johnkarls]

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1. Which candidate, in the Pennsylvania Presidential Debate, said – “our first step should be to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of Iranians, and that has to be one of our top priorities. And I will make it one of our top priorities when I am President of the United States…my belief is that they should also know that I will take no options off the table when it comes to preventing them from using nuclear weapons or obtaining nuclear weapons…”???

2. Which candidate, in the Pennsylvania Presidential Debate, said – “we cannot permit Iran to become a nuclear weapons power…we have got to have this process that reaches out…to get the rest of the world on our side to impose the kind of sanctions and diplomatic efforts that might prevent this from occurring…”???

(Hints – re no. 1, his initials are B.O. and re no. 2, her initials are H.C.)

3. Two days after the Pennsylvania Presidential Debate, what is the name of the female Iranian attorney who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, who was the first female Muslim to do so, and who was speaking in the Ballroom of the University of Utah Student Union???

4. After an eloquent prepared speech about the “U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child” and on Human Rights in general in Iran, the Muslim World, and globally (spiced with remarks about how the U.S. should NOT use various human-rights abuses by the Iranian government as a pretext for invading Iran), the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner was asked by a female student during the “Q & A” period whether, since any U.S. invasion of Iran would presumably be provoked instead by Iran’s nuclear-weapons program, a pursuit of nuclear weapons by Iran would be a “just cause” for the U.S. to invade Iran. How did the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner respond???

5. What was/is “The Gang of Eight???

6. Who were the four original Democratic members of “The Gang of Eight”???

7. Who are the four present Democratic members of “The Gang of Eight”???

8. Are all of the Democratic members (past and present) of “The Gang of Eight” unindicted felons???

9. Why did Nancy Pelosi later “throw under the bus” Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), who was Nancy’s successor as ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and, as such, became one of Nancy’s three Democratic colleagues in “The Gang of Eight”???

10. Who is John Yoo???

11. Who is Jack Goldsmith???

12. According to Eric Lichtblau (our author), why did Jack Goldsmith, upon taking office, withdraw John Yoo’s “torture memo” and his “warrantless wiretap memo”???

13. Did the Bush Administration fail to perform proper “due diligence” (from their viewpoint) in their appointment of Jack Goldsmith???

14. Besides our book by Eric Lichtblau, has Jack Goldsmith written his own book about this that we could read for extra credit???

15. Can you name a U.S. President who ordered the wartime seizure of whatever communications (foreign to foreign, U.S. to/from foreign, and U.S. to U.S.) he thought advisable, with no stated authority other than his Constitutional “Commander In Chief” powers???

16. Can Constitutional powers be abridged by mere laws passed by Congress???

17. What is – (A) “wall standing”??? (B) “hooding”??? (C) “subjection to noise”??? (D) “sleep deprivation??? (E) “deprivation of food and drink”??? (F) “water boarding”???

18. In 1978 litigation between Britain and the Irish Republican Army (“IRA”), which of these methods did the European Court of Human Rights decide did NOT constitute torture???

19. In the 1978 decision, did the European Court of Human Rights specify that all of the “aggressive interrogation methods” of which it approved could be employed simultaneously for virtually-unlimited periods of time without constituting “torture”???