{"id":295,"date":"2007-01-22T08:42:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T12:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2007-01-22T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T12:44:51","slug":"the-new-literalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"The new literalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought the old literalism was bad (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2007\/01\/19\/earth-to-alberto\/\">courtesy of Crooks and Liars)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>>Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can&#8217;t take it [habeas corpus] away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn&#8217;t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus?<\/p>\n<p>>Gonzales: I meant by that comment that the Constitution doesn&#8217;t say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn&#8217;t say that. It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>On that reading of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/constitution.billofrights.html\">Constitution<\/a>, they&#8217;re are no rights that are not positively expressed: You might have thought you had a right to free speech, for instance:  <\/p>\n<p>>Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.<\/p>\n<p>But on Gonzales&#8217;s interpretation, you don&#8217;t have a right to these things.  Congress just can&#8217;t &#8220;abridge&#8221; them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And you thought the old literalism was bad (courtesy of Crooks and Liars): >Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can&#8217;t take it [habeas corpus] away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn&#8217;t that mean you have the right of habeas corpus? >Gonzales: I meant by that comment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The new literalism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-formal-fallacies","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}