John Warner ping
Posted on 07/01/2006 6:47:05 AM PDT by nj26
A leading Senate Republican said Friday that he was not sure that Congress should pass legislation to create new military tribunals for terror suspects, a stance that raised doubts about prospects for a White House plan to establish an alternative to the commissions struck down this week by the Supreme Court.
The senator, John W. Warner of Virginia, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he had not yet decided what course Congress should take. But Mr. Warner, who will preside over hearings on the issue in July, said he was concerned that new tribunals, even if authorized by Congress, might not withstand judicial scrutiny.
"We're going to do this extremely carefully and accurately, or we're going to end up with a solution that once again ends up being the subject of litigation, and possibly being overturned," Mr. Warner said in an interview in his office.
The scope of the court's decision stunned the White House and Congress, forcing the House and Senate to rearrange their limited summer legislative calendar to address the issue. Lawmakers from both parties said Friday that they hoped to reach agreement by the end of summer on a new plan to bring terror suspects to trial.
But the caution voiced by Mr. Warner suggested signs of division, even among Republicans, about how to balance concerns about the threat posed by terrorism with the court's requirements that detainees must be granted some basic rights.
President Bush has said only that he intends to work with Congress, but he and his allies appear to be pressing for a law that would give the president the authority to set up something similar to the tribunals the court ruled he could not set up on his own.
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They have been granted some basic rights ... they're still alive.
NYT BS ALERT.
Warner's not going to do anything that would jeopardize his relationship with the arch lefties at the Washington Compost. Although Warner's the ranking senior senator from the great state of Virginia, he's actually the compost's poodle in the US Senate.
Oh, for cryin' out loud. What's the matter with these people? If we leave it to them, we'll have to fight all future wars in the court system, while the enemy hacks, burns and bombs their way to victory. Maybe we should start suiting up all the ambulance chasers and let them view battlefield conditions first-hand--maybe then they'd have a different opinion of what we're up against, and why we need a different justice system for terrorists.
The NYT has their favorite RINO pals in the Senate on speed-dial..they don't work alone.
"Maybe we should start suiting up all the ambulance chasers and let them view battlefield conditions first-hand--maybe then they'd have a different opinion of what we're up against, and why we need a different justice system for terrorists."
Paging John Edwards...
Great idea!!!!!
Give those facts maybe it is best if Congress drags it feet. Why rush to give the Terrorist a hearing in any court? Let them rot.
Breyer's short concurrence is actually quite reasonable. He says that Congress still has full authority to permit the executive branch to start such military courts.
The president should ignore this ruling. The court has done something dangerous and possibly unconstitutional.
Not surprising from a man who selected Liz Taylor, in all her intelligence, as a wife!
The ANSWER:
Send Federal Judges to Afghanstan/Iraq for the trial!
I don't see the problem of holding regular military courts-martials for the terrorists. They'll have to stay in jail, and the military courts have their own appeals courts, so the Ninth Circuit can't free them.
Ah, "Lieutenant Noballs" makes his utterly predictable response.
The Senate might have to do something a little complicated so we can try and dispose of terrorists who want to kill us by the bushel. Perish the thought.
John Warner ping
Yes probably will be overturned. When you have 5 members of the SC in the left and are anti-American what can we expect. Doubt these 5 ever read the Constitution and are devoid of gray matter.
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