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Re: Pepper sprayed for public safety.
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Originally Posted by Adder
Ah, the power of Bing! (God what a terrible branding).
And as to the latter, yes. But I'm not so sure that executive as commander in chief doesn't have an enumerated power to seize enemy combatants.
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Congress isn't saying he can't seize them. It's saying he can't spend money to incarcerate and try them in the fifty states. So if it's a collision of those two constitutional principles, it doesn't seem like a close call.
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