President Washington: "The Court has made its decision. Let them keep the terrorists at their own homes and offices."
Posted on 06/29/2006 7:11:53 AM PDT by pabianice
Edited on 06/29/2006 7:41:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Breaking...
Update:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion, which said the proposed trials were illegal under U.S. law and Geneva conventions.
The case focused on Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a body guard and driver for Usama bin Laden. Hamdan, 36, has spent four years in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo...
Excerpt. Read more at: Fox News
At last, a moment of clarity.
President Washington: "The Court has made its decision. Let them keep the terrorists at their own homes and offices."
Good points
1) The libs screamed that the detainees needed to be given trials.
2) Bush was willing to give them trials.
I'm looking forward to this evening's Brit Hume experience. By then it will have some semblance of reality.
This deals a crushing blow to the Nov 2008 mid-terms.
I disagree....I think the majority of the American people are going to be appalled by this decision......it may help the GOP in 06-08
"You mean a crushing blow to Dem hopes of retaking congress I trust?"
No. Dems will claim that this is evidence that Bush and fellow repubs are out of legal control that not even SCOTUS agrees with his actions. trust me.
Just listening to Fox infobabe trying to explain the decision.......nonsensical.
That- and hearing Mark Levin at 6...he'll put this in perspective
It wouldn't have been my favorite strat, but I think Bush can turn this into a HUGE, HUGE advantage by immediately having the House write a law on this. Make his the ISSUE OF 2006!!
This opinion is not yet been posted, but you can find decisions here:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05slipopinion.html
The site has been crashing this morning. Lots of hits.
I'm so glad Mark is back tonight!
However, there's not a darn thing we can do about the supreme court, at least not in any meaningful way. We are stuck with that little oligarcy.
susie
--None of this will happen. Even your most die-hard Republicans from your reddest states would be hammered by the MSM and even their local media for any of these actions.--
And these "die hard republicans" should care what the "MSM" says because ...? The "MSM" is already in deep doodoo over the release of the classifed SWIFT financial monitoring program. If they don't have the guts to stand up to press whining, they don't deserve to be in power. But this overlooks a larger point. We conservatives sometimes do not see the forest for the trees. Such is the case here. The forest--or elephant in the living room--that is being ignored is the entire concept of JUDICIAL REVIEW. The US Constitution does not authorize judicial review. Such an authority is nowhere to be found in its text. Marbury v. Madison (1803) is the first time judicial review was invoked by the SCOTUS, and it basically was a constitutional coup d etat by CJ John Marshall. Why Pres. Jefferson did not call Marshalls bluff I will never understand. The Framers would have detested judicial review. It takes power away from the general will of the American people (infallible) and gives it to nine all-to-fallible unelected oligarchs. Judicial review has caused injustice (Plessy, Korematsu, Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Kelo) and even war (Dred Scott). Judicial review is a concept which does our conservative movement no good. Our movement is about the PEOPLE and their sovereignty; judicial review only takes that away. There is a great article calling for the abolition of judicial review on townhall.com by a brilliant young political scientist named Ben Shapiro. To put it bluntly, instead of b*tching about this SCOTUS decision or that, or praying that the right justice gets on the bench, we conservatives should push to reverse Marshalls constitutional coup and abolish this odious doctrine once and for all. Let people elected by the people, who swear to uphold the Constitution, decide what is constitutional.
I sure hope he has a plan for the "dangerous" ones.
"I disagree....I think the majority of the American people are going to be appalled by this decision"
One can hope. I truly believe that the mid-term elections are going to be "vetty interesting."
Or Congress steps in and passes a law concerning this
Which will be interesting to see the Dems defend and fight for the rights of terrorists
Since this war will be going on for decades, the real fact is that these bums will all die in prison. Not a bad end.
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