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
Please tell me you don't vote and/or have a drivers license.
In my opinion that makes him informed about the case rather than biased. I don't think he should have to recuse himself. He should recuse himself if there is something that might lead him to not rule according to the law and the Constitution. Having formed a legal opinion based on the facts presented in the case is not something that should interfere with his duty.
Call me skeptical .. but I don't trust Graham .. nor McCain on any bills
Me either. Maybe Senator Sessions will take the lead. One can hope.
Why did the U.S. Supreme Court approve of Dred Scott's making of blacks 3/5ths' of a person. Why did SCOTUS approve Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow laws?
We are fallible beings...we make mistakes...
Barring the President from taking powers close to dictatorship is not one of them. Trust me guys...SCOTUS stood for our liberties, for our values, and our democracy today.
And we still can deal with terrorists by:
Procedures to follow, in a nutshell.
If Al-Qaeda, try, prove, find guilty or innocent, and either IMPRISON (if guilty) or release (if innocent).
If legitimate POW, hold in appropriate facility humanely with oversight from Congress and SCOTUS, and release after end of our wars.
Simple LEGAL procedures we can follow that maintain our national security AND maintain our rule of law/values.
That's what it sounds like to me, lol.
any member of an appellate tribunal is required to recuse him/herself from consideration of an opinion rendered by him/her below.
because I disagree?
and they say liberals are the ones that cannot tolerate dissent within their ranks.
thanks...I appreciate the warning.
I think I'll use my critical mind to decide who to argue with or not..thanks..
I welcome learning from them. Thanks!
if i were you, i would try to listen to Mark Levin's show today. i am sure he will address this issue and i am fairly certain he will not see it the same way you do.
It is the only argument.
If we do not survive, your arguments mean nothing.
Technically, no... However, Article 66 of the Constitution (I believe it's 66) allows the government to hold enemy combatants, without prosecution, until the cessation of hostilities... Which is what the administration has said all along.
so it did with those that agreed with Dred Scott and Plessy V. Ferguson.
Doesn't make it right...
Every President, Republican, Democrat, or Whig, did stuff that was wrong, illegal, or later reviewed to be considered inappropriate...
Doesn't mean we just look the other way to it.
I believe SCOTUS defended our liberties from an encroaching Executive Branch today...no conservative or liberal "bias" here..I'm just posting as a patriot what I believe..that's all. No one needs to get offended.
IF... for God's sake he was beheaded, had his internal organs ripped out his body, had his eyes gouged out, and his private parts cut off.
ok...fair enough. I welcome your points of views.
"Where do you stand today?"
That is the point... whether we will be standing at the end at all. If we are, then we can ruminate about platitudes.
First, to win (and thus, survive). And that, by any means possible.
no argument there...just insults.
moving along...
insults...no argument.
Moving along...
guilt by association, anyone?
moving along...
But you didn't deny it. lol
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