Five black-robed Marxist/Anarchist Thugs
have just un-constitutionally seized power
away from the American people and our
duly elected representatives.
That statement is too severe. It could also be said that the Bush Administration has received a necessary check to its tendency to bend American law in its prosecution of the war on terror. That would be too lenient.
The truth is in the middle and emotional reactions won't help. We have to think about what we do next.
Forget about impeachment. You need control of the House of Representatives to impeach and two-thirds of the Senate to remove from office. Judges in the Federal system rightly have tenure for life. (It works both ways. Don't you think Bill Clinton would have had Scalia and Thomas removed from the bench if he could have?)
I have no problem moving the detainees in Guantanamo to the U.S. and trying them in an American Federal court. They'll be in prison longer than they think they will. I noted this in another post; the Federal court calendar is crowded, and not all Federal circuit courts are liberal. If they get the ones for Alabama and Mississippi (hint, George, land them in Biloxi), they could be there for decades. How many murderers live another ten to fifteen years past their victims?
Indeed you are correct.