That certainly doesn't contradict the fact that the same conventions allow for the indefinite holding of saboteurs incommunicado. Nor does it require a military tribunal. It simply says that the terrorists will be treated as POWS until and unless a military tribunal is convened and the mooks are found to be unlawful combatants which was the policy of this administration.
Where is the justification for the majority to ignore stare decisis, precedent and the laws as written by the United States Congress?
You're going to have to do better than that crap Jackson.
Which crap - you mean this crap - "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
And let me give you two clues - one - it is stare decisis that habeas corpus is not a right of the individula - it is a limit on the power of the government.
And let me giver you clue number two - habeas corpus has not been suspended in the present emergency.
Liar liar liar liar.
That was not the policy of this administration.
Why can't it sink into that too dense skull of yours that these decisions came about because the policy of the present administration was to hold no tribunals and they held no tribunals. The reason for putting them on Guantanomo was simply for the U.S. to try to escape the reach of the constitutional limits on its power. Said decision is what earned them a rebuke from Kennedy.
It is now the policy of this administration to hold tribunals and they are holding them as fast as they possibly can. But they only started doing that after Rasul v Bush.
It was dumb - real dumb. Bush was not well advised.