U.S. Judge Halts Guantanamo Transfer

AP via SFGate ^ | 10/9/7

[SmithL]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A U.S. federal judge in Washington has blocked the Pentagon from transferring a Guantanamo Bay detainee to Tunisia, where he allegedly faces torture, according to a ruling unsealed Tuesday.

Lawyers said the order by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler was an unprecedented direct intervention in the case of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay,

[SmithL]

Kessler, Gladys

Born 1938 in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 22, 1994, to a seat vacated by Michael J. Boudin; Confirmed by the Senate on June 15, 1994, and received commission on June 16, 1994. Assumed senior status on January 22, 2007.

Education:
Cornell University, B.A., 1959

Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1962

Professional Career:
Appellate attorney, National Labor Relations Board, 1962-1964
Legislative assistant, U.S. Sen. Harrison A. Williams, 1964-1966
Legislative assistant, U.S. Rep. Jonathan Bingham, 1966-1968
Special assistant, Director of Office of Staff Relations, New York City Board of Education, 1968-1969
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1969-1977
Associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1977-1994


Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Female

[tired1]

i do hate these people so.

[bill1952]

Excuse, but how does a district court now have jurisdiction over Gitmo?

Personally, I’d tell her to pound sand, but Bush never will.

[traditional1]

I would have thought the Jurisdictional issue would have been fought, prior to the case being heard, but no one from the Government objected?

The whole GITMO issue boils down to multi-million dollar towel-heads having deep pockets, and their beholdin' Liberals wanting their Trial Lawyers lobby to have the opportunity to empty them (the deep pockets), through representation of terrorists.

Follow the money, as always.

[facedown]

Gladys has a long history of leftist activism “rulings”.

[Rummyfan]

Personally, I’d tell her to pound sand, but Bush never will.

Me too .... how the heck does this fall under her purview?

[caisson71]

We need to rename our WOT to WOTAOJ - War On Terrorism And Our Judges.

[GoldenPup]

She has made her decision...now, let her enforce it. It’s about time we started to just ignore these judicial idiots!!!

[Wuli]

Critics of American “Middle East” policies always want it both ways.

First they tell us we have no business telling people in the Middle East what kind of governments they should have, how those governments are run and no business disregarding the values their cultures insist on.

But, if we dare return any terrorist to the Middle East country of which they are a citizen, we are violating that country’s citizen of his or her rights to our form of government, to how our government works and their right to our cultural sentiments - to protect them from their own society, a society we are not supposed to offend by dictating our way of life to it.

If its an argument from the left, you can always expect hypocrisy.

[sergeantdave]

Give the detainee a sword, knife and icepick and transfer him to the judge’s house. I’m sure they’ll enjoy long talks over tea and krumpets.

[Argus]

So the Left will have it both ways now, right? The poor widdle terrorists are being tortured at Guantanamo and should be released, but if we want to send them back to their country of origin we can’t because they’ll be tortured there? I guess the liberals won’t be happy until we give each terrorist a condo in Miami and an ATM card with $5G in the kitty.

[the Real fifi]

I believe she has the record for being reversed more than any other district court judge in the circuit.

[lilylangtree]

This liberal leftist judge needs to be disbarred.

[DGHoodini]

Judicial malfeasance as political appointee judge exceedes her perview.

[ThomasPaine2000]

Just 5G’s, you are truly “heartless”. I say at least 500G’s, so they won’t attack us again.../sarc off/