Posted on 06/18/2008 8:05:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
Conservatives, seizing on the Supreme Court's ruling last week on Guantanamo detainees, want to turn the court into election fodder. I hope they succeed.
No issue in this campaign is as simultaneously neglected and important. And the opposite reactions of John McCain and Barack Obama to the decision underscore how much is at stake for the future of the court.
Obama hailed the ruling for showing that "a state can't just hold you for any reason without charging you and without giving you any kind of due process — that's the essence of who we are."
McCain was initially mild, saying only that the decision "obviously concerns me." By the next day, though, he was as over-the-top as Justice Antonin Scalia, who warned that the court's action "will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
Legal reasoning — or ad copy for the Republican National Committee? In any event, McCain got the point. "One of the worst decisions in the history of this country," he thundered last Friday.
Worse, to take an example on which McCain and I differ but that illustrates the overheated nature of his reaction, than Roe v. Wade?
This reaction makes little sense from a man who has repeatedly vowed to shut down Guantanamo — on his first day in office, no less — and ship its remaining prisoners to Fort Leavenworth.
After all, the whole point of stashing the detainees at Guantanamo was to avoid giving them the rights that everyone acknowledged they would have on U.S. soil. So the McCain solution — sending them to Leavenworth — would create the very situation he now decries.
More important, the ruling will not have anywhere near the disastrous consequences forecast by the McScalias of the world.
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What are they smoking?
Good question
Mr “Gang of 14”, hardly.
Maybe so, maybe not, but imagine--if you can!--what the Supreme Court will be like--and what its decisions will be like--when a President Obama gets through with it, with a Democrat majority in the House of Representatives and a filibuster-proof Democrat majority in the Senate!
agree.
a hasty conclusion by some mcdole propagandist.
Howso? You really think he will nominate or fight for anyone that will overturn his signature legislation?
Memo to Mr. markus:
I don’t believe you.
A President McCain will have a Dem, probably hostile, controlled Senate.
He would be lucky to get moderate SC justices appointed.
In all probability, the Judiciary Committee will not allow the current balance to change toward the right.
McCain’s ‘choices’ will be from the short list the Dems give him to ‘choose’ from. Otherwise, he won’t get them through the nominating process.
We will lose ground in some areas with mcCain...but we will lose it in all areas with Obama, on every issue.
McCain is doing the nominating so the nominees may possibly be slightly to the right of Ginsberg but even that isn’t for sure.
To the right of Ginsburg-LOL.i know you’re kidding-someone to the right of that sawed off little commie bitch is still a left wing turd.
You believe... I believe... at this point in time, I doubt either of us can convince the other. My judgment of McCain’s past puts him on the same level as Obama, or close enough to be indistinguishable. This is mostly his fault. Crossing the aisle, trying to make that state fixed, dodging key votes where he would have had to commit, erratic records that swing him from C to F and back again by NRA or NRL, the list goes on.
And you know this?
Please..he will appoint smokin lefty elites or “moderates” that will eat crumbs out of their beards for the next 30 years. Anyone that trusts him on appointees is someone that would donate money to his campaign.
Like Souter?
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