Posted on 03/28/2006 7:40:06 PM PST by chet_in_ny
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today in a landmark dispute over executive power in wartime, the Bush administration will be outnumbered -- if not outgunned.
Many of the nation's top law firms have signed briefs against the government and in support of Salim Hamdan, the detainee who allegedly served as chauffeur to Osama bin Laden and who is being detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
More than three dozen briefs have been filed on Hamdan's side, largely arguing that the military tribunals established by the White House to try the detainees are illegal. By contrast, only a handful of briefs have been filed on the other side, backing the administration's expansive view of executive authority.
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No surprise. Most lawyers are Democrats.
And from the MSM:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/28/scotus.tribunal/
Looks like a bunch of associates needed the pro bono hours, and they all happened to do an amicus on the same case. There goes the goal of trying to get a little bit of press for the firm. (The senior partners signed the briefs, of course.)
You know you're doing the right thing when....
.....all the lawyers oppose you.
TRANSLATION: Big law firms find way to promote themselves by filing irrelevant briefs in the case.
This is about self promotion.
This country will not survive the suicidal idiocy of those who run many of its institutions.
And Law School professors sued the government over military recruiters and got spanked!
Why am I not surprised that the Bush/America-hating shysters sided with the Islamic monsters who want to kill Americans. Lawyers are scum.
All lawyer jokes are true!!!!!!
Whatever Scalia says, I agree.
I knew there was a reason I can't get hired anywhere.
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