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To: jwalsh07
The Court today holds that the habeas statute, 28 U.S.C. § 2241 extends to aliens detained by the United States military overseas, outside the sovereign borders of the United States and beyond the territorial jurisdictions of all its courts.

Wrong! They ruled that Gitmo IS INSIDE the territorial jurisdiction of the US. They are right! Gitmo is NOT outside of the reach of the Supreme Court and liberals on the court have already conferred all kinds of rights on the detainees there! You can say otherwise until you are blue in the face but the law and the Supreme Court of the US disagree with you!

110 posted on 01/13/2008 5:02:17 PM PST by Tlaloc
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To: Tlaloc
You're filaments open pal which is why you're not one of the brighter bulbs I've met here of late.

Scalia is explaining why the liberals in Rasul were FOS. You support the liberals. Follow that to it's logical conclusion.

115 posted on 01/13/2008 5:08:08 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Tlaloc
Chew on this but it won't taste very good:

" The Court gives only two reasons why the presumption against extraterritorial effect does not apply to Guantanamo Bay. First, the Court says (without any further elaboration) that “the United States exercises ‘complete jurisdiction and control’ over the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base [under the terms of a 1903 lease agreement], and may continue to exercise such control permanently if it so chooses [under the terms of a 1934 Treaty].” Ante, at 12; see ante, at 2—3. But that lease agreement explicitly recognized “the continuance of the ultimate sovereignty of the Republic of Cuba over the [leased areas],” Lease of Lands for Coaling and Naval Stations, Feb. 23, 1903, U.S.-Cuba, Art. III, T. S. No. 418, and the Executive Branch–whose head is “exclusively responsible” for the “conduct of diplomatic and foreign affairs,” Eisentrager, supra, at 789–affirms that the lease and treaty do not render Guantanamo Bay the sovereign territory of the United States, see Brief for Respondents 21." Scalia in Rasul.

122 posted on 01/13/2008 5:16:26 PM PST by jwalsh07
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