Rosalinda Cruz, a justice of the Honduran supreme court, says that the army acted on a legal arrest warrant:
“The only thing the armed forces did was carry out an arrest order,” Cruz, 55, said in a telephone interview from the capital, Tegucigalpa. “There’s no doubt he was preparing his own coup by conspiring to shut down the congress and courts.”
Cruz said the court issued a sealed arrest order for Zelaya on June 26, charging him with treason and abuse of power, among other offenses. . .
The arrest order she cited, approved unanimously by the court’s 15 justices, was released this afternoon along with documents pertaining to a secret investigation that went on for weeks under the high court’s supervision.
(Via Legal Insurrection, via Instapundit.)
We really shouldn’t be calling this a coup any more. Beyond the fact that Honduras doesn’t have our Posse Comitatus act, what exactly is our complaint now?
