Posted on 03/23/2009 12:30:01 PM PDT by mnehring
The US Supreme Court will not hear the appeals of US Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. The refusal lets stand the opinion of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the convictions and the sentences of the agents.
Although this effectively ends the agents’ hopes to have their felony convictions overturned, they are now free men thanks to a last minute commutation of their 10-year sentences by President Bush. Had it not been for Bush’s action, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case would likely have meant the agents would have served their full sentences. Nonetheless, since Bush declined to pardon the men, they remain convicted felons.
Is this a vidication of the much-maligned Johnny Sutton (and the trial judge, and the Fifth Circuit justices, all of whom some have suggested were involved, along with the Bush Administration, in some Oliver Stone-like conspiracy) or an indication that SCOTUS is satisfied the men are now free?
Legally speaking, of course, it upholds the government’s case.
PINGING the INFIDELS..............
Bush should have given them a pardon. They are free, but they lost their jobs for doing their jobs. Hopefully there are people Texas who will help them out.
PINGING the COMRADES
Exactly...Bush should have shown some cahones and issued a full pardon.
Actually, SCOTUS is saying that proper procedure has been followed. Really, that's the purpose of SCOTUS, to act as head administrator of the court system. As long as courts aren't overstepping their bounds or making up law, they don't see a need to get involved.
I hope the American people stand by these guys and are quick to offer jobs or what ever they need to live a normal life. They deserve more than the turn coats that locked them up!!!
Our SCOTUS will allow a person to remain in the office of POTUS without making him prove that he’s even Constitutionally eligible.
What has hell happened to my country?
He must live with this now. Of course his ranch is protected by SS and far from the border.....
Well! That Sux!
Ping
Huh? SCOTUS heard the case brought by Anna Nicole Smith but won’t hear Ramos and Compean? (shaking my head)
The Supreme Court isn’t there to overturn the factual judgment of juries — it is there to correct improper legal procedure or legal interpretations.
In this case, there was no procedural impropriety or erroneous interpretations for the Court to correct — there was simply the poor judgment of a jury. Correcting poor jury judgment is not the purpose of the Supreme Court.
The Court acted as it should have in this case.
SnakeDoc
>> Our SCOTUS will allow a person to remain in the office of POTUS without making him prove that he’s even Constitutionally eligible.
What would you have them do? They do not have the Constitutional authority to remove a sitting President.
SnakeDoc
Have them write an expose book. I, along with millions of others will buy it. We know how to make sure our heros are cared for!
I guess now they’ll have plenty of time to consider the constitutionality of TARP and the 90% tax aimed at the AIG execs won’t they? Geez.
“They do not have the Constitutional authority to remove a sitting President.”
They do have the authority to say if the President has been proved eligible according to Constitutional requirements.
It seems that the SCOTUS acted appropriately. After reading up on the case, I believe Bush did, too.
We like these two because we don’t like illegals. That doesn’t mean they were pure as snow, or did nothing wrong. I refer not so much to the shooting but to their actions afterwards.
Bush did the right thing—these two are not above the law just because we don’t like illegals. They don’t deserve to spend anymore time in prison for their comparatively minor offenses, but they weren’t innocent, either.
Lets hope and work that Palin, Jindal (or other dedicated conservative) take over so the communtations become pardons!!!!
sw
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