Posted on 06/08/2008 12:20:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
The UCMJ gives more rights than the 5th Amendment. And this is a military trial and has NO Constitutional authority for a federal judge to intervene about anything.
Military courts do not deal with Constitutional issues, only criminal ones. When the defendant claims his or her Constitutional rights are being violated then federal court is where it will be fought out.
Even after Earl Warren perverted the Supreme Court, they had numerous decisions following the rule that the civilian courts should stay out of military business.
But it’s possible that the leftists are hoping to reverse those opinions, as they have reversed so many others. And it’s possible that the leftist activist judges are delaying this (as they clearly are) in hopes of keeping it alive until a Democrat is elected in November and the Court gets some more moonbat appointments.
Unfortunately, that scenario is going to be very hard to block even if McCain, a very weak candidate, is elected, because he has never in the past shown any inclination to fight the Democrats in congress for good court appointments.
In other words, the moonbat agenda may involve undermining the military justice system as well as the right to life and the traditional understanding of marriage. We are already seeing that from WITHIN the military justice system in the Haditha prosecutions.
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