• No. 03-1027 (pdf)
• No. 05-533 (pdf)
• No. 05-533 (pdf)

It was Bush who ultimately decided to move Padilla to civilian court where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to 17 years.

Did the Senate Judiciary Committee not have access to Lexis to run a simple search for Holder's name and come up with it on their own?

The documents were “friend of the court” briefs submitted to the Supreme Court by several former Clinton administration officials, including Mr. Holder and former Attorney General Janet Reno.

Mr. Miller said the group submitted several versions of the brief at different stages in the case of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who had been arrested in Chicago in 2002 and accused of planning an attack for Al Qaeda. President George W. Bush designated Mr. Padilla an “enemy combatant,” placed him in military custody, cut off his access to a lawyer and declared that he could imprison him indefinitely for the purpose of interrogation, without judicial review.

Here's Bloviator-in-Chief Jeff Sessions:

And Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, said the opinions in the briefs “go to the heart of his responsibilities in matters of national security. This is an extremely serious matter and the attorney general will have to address it.”

The President, elected by the people, has declared many times he believes the same thing. And that belief is correct.

Jeff Sessions (like Lindsay Graham, his partner in dangerous, conservative fear-mongering) serioulsy need a muzzle.