To: inquest
"If no treaties have yet been found to conflict with the Constitution..."Then you have no argument at all...because the Geneva Convention has been U.S. law since it was ratified decades and decades ago...and that treaty dictates precisely how we can treat enemy combatants.
44 posted on
05/05/2004 10:28:28 AM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
No, it just means the matter hasn't been tested yet. First a treaty would have to be found to conflict with the Constitution, before SCOTUS would have an opportunity to decide whether in that case the treaty prevails, or the Constitution prevails. The answer, of course, is obvious.
45 posted on
05/05/2004 10:33:38 AM PDT by
inquest
(The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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