The whiners are going to whine no matter what you do.
The best course is to simply ignore them.
It gets dicier if the courts start ordering you to release people who are going to go out there and murder American soldiers again.
If I were President, I would simply say "No" and establish an Executive veto over judicial opinions relating to command decisions in wartime.
But I already know from the Schiavo case that this President is not made of the right stuff to do that.
The best course is to simply ignore them. "
Okay. Keep GITMO open.
But take away the Rice Pilaf.
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It gets dicier if the courts start ordering you to release people who are going to go out there and murder American soldiers again."
That is why I think it is sufficient for it to be under military tribunal courts, not American courts. They are, in effect POWs in the global war on terror.
The military could decide to turn them over to other jurisdictions and nations, but shouldnt be forced to do so.
"If I were President, I would simply say "No" and establish an Executive veto over judicial opinions relating to command decisions in wartime."
Ha! He's an American President not a French one.
That arrogance would get him impeached!
"But I already know from the Schiavo case that this President is not made of the right stuff to do that."
Very unfair statement. Even his own Legal counsel would not support him on it, there is no Constitutional presidential 'veto' over judicial decisions. It's why we talk of 'judicial tyranny' here, nobody overrides the courts.