meme from calliopes_pen |
[Apr. 19th, 2009|06:26 pm] |
If you disappeared off the face of the internet right now, what do you think people'd remember about you? I've said for some time that, if I'm remembered after I'm gone for something else than being someone else's friend or relation, it'll be for Arthur, King of Time and Space. (Whether it ought rather be for my fanfiction instead [that's if AKOTAS doesn't count as fanfiction in the first place], I leave as an exercise for the blogreader.) |
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| Habeas Irish Rose |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|09:31 pm] |
I have a question for the lawyers on my flist. In tomorrow's AKOTAS Superman Kingman gets himself arrested on charges of obstruction of justice for failing to detain a suspect on behalf of a Homeland Security agent who declined to tell the suspect the charge(s) against him. Kingman let the suspect go because holding without being charged is unconstitutional, even though Homeland Security types have been detaining without charge for eight years or so now. This was brought to mind by discussions on my flist of the unconstitutionality of several powers the office of the presidency granted itself over the past eight years, which haven't been reversed yet. I have in mind to possibly explore what would happen if someone like Superman were real, had like Superman pledged to uphold the law in order to keep from being just an alien bully, and ran afoul of the new directives because he has had the effrontery to question their constitutionality. What I need to know at the moment, though, is what happens next procedurally. I mean, obviously the Batman the White Night comes across the river and bails him out, but where and when would he be expected to appear in court? After that I suppose I'll have to decide whether I want to do a story where the case gets appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, or whether I'm just pastiching David E. Kelley. Or both. ETA: I also would like to know if anyone's heard of any case law on the subject. Picked a good movie premiere week for this one, I guess. |
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