Posted on 05/01/2007 1:42:13 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seventy-five lawyers for nearly 400 Guantanamo Bay detainees urged Congress on Tuesday to give the prisoners access to U.S. courts.
Fanning out across Capitol Hill for private meetings with senators and House members, the attorneys are seeking legislation to overturn a section of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that stripped the detainees of court access.
Under last year's law, the detainees are entitled to a procedural review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia into whether they were properly designated unlawful enemy combatants.
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Law? We don't need no stinking law! We're STL, scumbag traitor lawyers, Inc. No vermin is too vile to be undeserving of our efforts to make names for ourselves, I mean help them escape to kill more Americans, I mean be found innocent, yeah, that's it, not guilty and all that.
Second who is paying them?
Third how much are they making for their Traitor activity?
Fourth why are they not being deported to their country of choice the caves of Afghanistan?
I was thinking the same thing. Someone is footing a mighty expensive bill to provide shysters for these terrorists.
You cant get much lower in the lawyer business than working for terrorists.
There was one of those communist lawyers on C-Span yesterday.
Apparently he cut his teeth by defending a person before the House Unamerican Activities Committee.
He was a disgusting pit of anti-american, anti-constitutional, and just plain disgusting BS. These people should not even BE lawyers.
They want to make ALL conflict go before the courts. We we have is a serious push from the left to make all war really just a “police action”.
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