Posted on 06/29/2006 7:11:53 AM PDT by pabianice
Edited on 06/29/2006 7:41:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Breaking...
Update:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies.
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion, which said the proposed trials were illegal under U.S. law and Geneva conventions.
The case focused on Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a body guard and driver for Usama bin Laden. Hamdan, 36, has spent four years in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo...
Excerpt. Read more at: Fox News
That is the whole problem with this court. It will brook no bar to it's will from law or Constitution .
Justice Thomas read his dissent from the bench - the first time he has EVER done that. He must be really PO'd.
Thanks CO, I forgot that he was on the Circuit Court that made the ruling.
Actually, that is NOT what the opinion says. What the opinion says is that Hamza did not raise that as an issue, and the Court would not address it. In other words, they are reserving the right to throw that out as well, if they have a majority at some later date. This majority is shameless. We've had military tribunals ordered by the President ever since 1776. Now they are throwing them out to satisfy their own partisan bloodlust.
How about impeachment proceedings against the Justices who have usurped Article II powers?
Big win for the terrorists, too. Funny, how democrats and terrorists are always on the same side of an issue, isn't it?
Does not surprise me. Some of the democrats are really nasty folks. Some are decent and really want what is best for America, but those numbers probably can't be counted on one hand.
Where do I find Mark?
Fine... Then we should have a take no prisoner policy.
I hope he stood while he read it.
WHAT does Geneva Convention have to do with it?
Let the dems gloat all they want for a day. This ruling, along with eminent domain, will be the nail in their coffins this November as well as in 2008.
Dems are just going to make themselves look more and more out of control with their yammerings.
FDR would have been impeach as would have Jackson, and I believe Jefferson.
That's it, there is no other solution because President Bush isn't going to do the "now enforce it" thing.
Ironically, I think the military tribunals were an attempt to appease the Left and give the detainees a little bit of due process.
The civil courts have no jurisdiction over the detainees, which complicates matters - and even if the civil courts could hear the detainees cases, their crimes were committed outside the scope of the civil courts, so the only verdict possible in a civil court would be a mistrial, and an order to release.
Which only further enlightens us to what the Left is trying to gain here at the expense of the war on terror. They see an opportunity to injure the President and will do everything possible, up to and including causing the release of hundreds of enemy combatants from our custody, to do so.
If not for the Left's insistence for due process for the prisoners, the review boards initially used probably would've stuck.
Supposed to come back tonight!
They have not yet lost in November. It's important that they do. If they do not, they will do anything and everything to destroy this administration. They will be even more effective than they have been with a majority in either house.
Souter jogs around DC in the evening. A mugger almost retired him a while ago but he survived to again rule for the enemy..
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