Hey, all you crazy bastards out there: Sen. Rand Paul’s got your back.
Fired up on the Senate floor @SenRandPaul responds to Lindsey Graham and "crazy bastard standard"
— Anthony Terrell (@AnthonyNBCNews) November 30, 2012
During a Senate debate on the detention and trial of terrorism suspects, Sen. Lindsey Graham argued that Americans don’t want to close Guantanamo Bay “to bring these crazy bastards that want to kill us all to the United States.”
Responding to Graham, Paul defended the right to trial by jury as he urged his colleagues to support the Feinstein-Lee amendment regarding indefinite detention of Americans. And perhaps setting a new Senate floor record, he used the term “crazy bastard” five times.
I will tell you since I know this record of this debate will be widely read, that I want to make former objection to the crazy bastards standard. I don’t really think that if we’re going to have a crazy bastard standard that we shouldn’t have a right to trial by jury, because if we’re going to lock up all the crazy bastards, for goodness sakes – would you not want if you’re a crazy bastard to have a right to trial by jury?
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The right to a trial by jury is prescribed in our Constitution for all Americans. I hope my colleagues will protect it: http://t.co/dHX9W8XM
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 30, 2012
https://twitter.com/matthewhurtt/status/274335019554709505
The Lee-Feinstein Amendment, co-sponsored by Paul, passed in a 67 to 29 vote.
A HUGE win for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and an 800-year precedent: http://t.co/2oQtxw8u
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) November 30, 2012
The crazy bastards could not be reached for comment.
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