[lula]

Send the detainee to live at the judges house.

[OCCASparky]

Released. From 30,000 feet? Okay.

[La Lydia]

They spelled his name wrong. They left out the “t.” Perhaps now he will be allowed to come to the U.S., spend time with his friends and collect benefits.

[camas]

OK but let him go in Chicago

[EagleUSA]

The judge didn’t explain in the ruling why Basardh should be let go, but said it was explained during a closed hearing in her courtroom earlier in the day.
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The really dangerous issue here is that a FEDERAL JUDGE is determining who and when the Constitution applies to ENEMY COMBATANTS who are NOT U.S. CITIZENS. Which leads to the LONG STANDING logical question — since when do U.S. Constitutional RIGHTS apply to non-U.S. citizens?

I am afraid we are in for a long thrashing and trashing of the Constitution by the Obama-modified judiciary.

And again, where are the Congressional Republicans on these issues?? Where is there voice of LOUD PROTEST and the demands that should be coming from them? WHERE ARE THE REPUBLICANS???? HELLO???

[Carley]

Put him into the bay with the sharks

[messierhunter]

It’s like these judges are competing to see who can screw us the hardest. Habeas corpus has as much place on the battlefield as miranda rights. Guess we have to start collecting evidence in the middle of a war. I would say this is insanity, but I think these facists know exactly what they’re doing, and they’ll stop at nothing to undermine the war effort.

[ChicagahAl]

"U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle"

Clinton appointee.

[Cicero]

I googled around. She seems to be a mixed bag. On the one hand, she delayed building the border fence because the Sierra Club said the environmental review had been done too fast.

On the other hand, she came out on the right side on a wiretapping case:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741896/posts

I do agree that there seems to be some elementary confusion here, granting citizen rights to enemy captives who are not citizens. Absolutely no one seems to be questioning that. Yet at the same time were are increasingly seeing denial of rights to citizens.

[GeronL]

a Georgetown flat, car service, a generous stipend, a college loan and of course reparations.

[NonValueAdded]

Went from Yemen to join the Taliban, was in a Tora Bora cave with OBL, captured by the Pakistani military. So ... one can guess a closed hearing because some of the evidence was collected by National Security Means and we don't want OBL's minions to know how much we know. This twit of a judge decides this guy is A-OK in her book and we gotta let him go. I can only imagine how she would rule if it was OBL himself. We're screwed. Totally screwed.

[NonValueAdded]

Correct headline (not that the AP would ever choose this:)

Judge frees OBL cave-mate

[Titus-Maximus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M32M-2B2mz8

Watch the Kuwaiti professor ask for anthrax to be brought in to the US from Mexico. Then decide.

[LibertyRocks]

Released to WHERE? is my question... It had better not be here in the U.S..

[SmithL]

Huvelle, Ellen Segal

Born 1948 in Boston, MA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 25, 1999, to a seat vacated by John Garrett Penn; Confirmed by the Senate on October 15, 1999, and received commission on October 26, 1999.

Education:
Wellesley College, B.A., 1970

Yale University School of Architecture, M.C.P., 1972

Boston College School of Law, J.D., 1975

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Edward Hennessey, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1975-1976
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1976-1990
Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law, 1997-1999
Associate judge, District of Columbia Superior Court, 1990-1999


Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Female