Posted on 07/01/2006 1:20:50 PM PDT by mb_in_ca
THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both U.S. military law and the Geneva Convention.
But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Was it a rebuke? YES...
Was it a major setback? NO....
Notice how the left is DESPERATELY trying to spin this into something it IS NOT??
The simple answer: No.
Umm no. Any other stupid questions "Rosa"? BTW, you DID bother to read the part of the SC Decision where even extreme Leftist Justice Stevens was forced to admit the US can hold your Terrorist buddies "Until the End of Hostilies" Right Junk Media type idiot? Way to give your Terrorist heros Life Senatences with out them ever having to be tried in any Court you stupid Leftists.
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.Send this cat back toEng. Comp. 0001. College prep.
Virginia allows co-conspirators in a murder case to face capital punishment.
The leftwingnuts who pursued the Hamdan case simply shortened the time where this may be possible.
No.
"But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act."
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This is a disgraceful decision by the SCOTUS.
Who the hell is Rosa Parks? And who cares what her analysis/opinions are?
No, he did not, Ms. Brooks. Now STFU and crawl back into your filthy Commie hole, thank you very much.
From the LAT:
Rosa Brooks
Rosa Brooks is a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Her experience includes service as a senior advisor at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, as a consultant for the Open Society Institute and Human Rights Watch, as a board member of Amnesty International USA, and as a lecturer at Yale Law School. Her government and NGO work has involved extensive travel and field research on issues such as transitional justice in Iraq, Indonesia and Kosovo and child soldiers in Uganda and Sierra Leone.
Brooks is the author of numerous scholarly articles on international law, human rights, and the law of war, and her book, "Can Might Make Rights? The Rule of Law After Military Interventions" (with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman), will be published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press.
Brooks received her A.B. from Harvard in 1991, followed by a master's degree from Oxford in 1993 and a law degree from Yale in 1996. She lives in Free Union, Va., with her husband and two children.
...this mental midget is clearly unaware of the doctrine of "ex post facto"...one cannot be prosecuted for a so-called 'crime' that was committed before the act in question became illegal...more little girl happy crap from the Al Qaada fan club
Sorry, my bad. I meant Rosa Brooks.
If I hear "rebuke" one more time from the MSM I think I'll repuke.
Her government and NGO work has involved extensive travel and field research on issues such as transitional justice in Iraq, Indonesia and Kosovo and child soldiers in Uganda and Sierra Leone.
Brooks is the author of numerous scholarly articles on international law, human rights, and the law of war, and her book, "Can Might Make Rights? The Rule of Law After Military Interventions" (with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman), will be published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press.
Brooks received her A.B. from Harvard in 1991, followed by a master's degree from Oxford in 1993 and a law degree from Yale in 1996.
OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE. STATE DEPARTMENT. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH and AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL.
HARVARD, YALE & OXFORD (That's not in Mississippi, is it?)
Nuff said.
No Bimbo he did not
A mind is such an unfortunate thing to waste!
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