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NEWSBLOGSeptember 13, 2005
Civil Liberties and 9/11
Sen. Feingold questions Roberts on civil liberties:
Roberts: "The basic issue of how you address the question of civil liberties during war times, times of crisis, is an important one. The bill of rights doesn't change in times of war...[but] things that might have not been acceptable in times of peace might be acceptable in times of war."
Making that distinction, Roberts says, requires "dispassion."
Feingold asks about the Korematsu internment case
"Do you believe that Korematsu was wrongly decided?"
Roberts: "I don't think it's technically be overruled but I think it's widely recognized that it has no precedent value."
He refuses to answer a question about the practice of extraorndinary rendition.
Posted by Marc Ambinder | 04:16 PM
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