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Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Bay War-Crimes Trials (SCOTUS rules against President)
Fox News & AP ^ | June 29, 2006

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...

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To: Ron in Acreage
Ok.... Take no prisoners.
81 posted on 06/29/2006 7:22:50 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: pabianice
No seating available on flights to Cuba....all available seats being reserved for ambulance-chasers for the forseeable future, to get those Middle East BIG BUCKS clients on their dockets....stay tuned.

Let the Liberal MSM start yukking it up right now, as lawsuit-heaven has arrived.. and, the American people will pay BIG for the "abuse of the civil rights" of these NON-CITIZEN cesspool dwellers...

82 posted on 06/29/2006 7:22:57 AM PDT by traditional1
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To: pabianice

I suspect that it really isn't over. After all there are two choices that we simply aren't going to do. We can release them or we can drag them up here for endless trials.


83 posted on 06/29/2006 7:22:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: pissant

I kept hearing this would happen...

JUST DAMN! (sorry Jim)..

So, now, how do we try people that have never set foot on American soil...but fought against Americans??

By giving them TAX PAYER paid for lawyers in the USA???


84 posted on 06/29/2006 7:22:59 AM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Rummyfan
When did it become SCOTUS' job to interpret the Geneva Convention??????????? And the UCMJ?????

I was wondering that myself.

85 posted on 06/29/2006 7:22:59 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: pabianice; All

If the TERRORISTS kill our troops after they have been captured, then maybe we should stop offering any quarter to them.


86 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:04 AM PDT by jbenedic2 (Nothing new for the New York Times)
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To: pabianice
1. President had no authority to set-up military commissions without Congressional approval.

So the President simply seeks Congressional approval.

Shift responsibility to the bedbugs in Congress.

87 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:14 AM PDT by kidd (If God is your co-pilot, try switching seats)
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To: pabianice

The Supreme Court is abusing its power.

Since when does al-Qaeda operatives in foreign nations have constitutional rights under the US Constitution?

These are the people who murdered 3000 Americans on 911.


88 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:14 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Ron in Acreage

and free cheese.


89 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:17 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: pabianice

Now we know why the president himself will be handling the news conference. I think I will wait for him to speak on the subject.


90 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:24 AM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: Mo1

Hold them there with no trial. Works for me. We probably weren't going to seek the death penalty in most cases anyway.

Unless the ruling is so broad as to order the close of Gitmo, nothing really changes.


91 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:30 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: areafiftyone

Yes, it is. By simply stating he had overstepped, it's going to bring out all the impeachment nuts.


92 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:52 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Puppage
No, they're not. They represent NO country, and wear NO uniform

"They" in this case, are the tribunals, not the individuals. You have no idea of what you speak.

Perhaps you should pay attention before opening your mouth? I know exactly of what I speak.

93 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:54 AM PDT by IMRight
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To: pabianice
Sooooooo... the SC has just told us what we already know, which is DON'T TREAT A PRISONER OF WAR AS A CRIMINAL MATTER, BUT AS A PRISONER OF WAR!!!!!
94 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:54 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU HAVE NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT. Actually, you lack even a legitimate excuse.)
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To: NeoCaveman
So does this mean that military tribunals held during WWII, and the War Between the States, among others were unconstitutional?

IIRC, there were specific statutory frameworks approved by Congress for those, so this ruling would not be applicable.

95 posted on 06/29/2006 7:23:54 AM PDT by steve-b (Hoover Dam is every bit as "natural" as a beaver dam.)
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To: goodnesswins

He had to.


96 posted on 06/29/2006 7:24:03 AM PDT by Tulane
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To: Coop
Dismayed and disgusted too! After seeing that mess that was the Moussaoui trial, they want trials for terrorists in criminal courts? ARE THEY INSANE?????
97 posted on 06/29/2006 7:24:03 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Mo1
I don't get this ruling

It is a ruling regarding Trials ONLY - The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration does not have the authority to try terrorism suspects by military tribunal. They want a Civilian Trial!

98 posted on 06/29/2006 7:24:05 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
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To: pabianice

Other people are also making the valid point that the terrorists are not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and as a group do not even try to conform to the Geneva Conventions, as evidenced by their treatment of their prisoners.

If anything is really illegal - it is the fact that our enemy are by international legal standards "illegal combatants".


99 posted on 06/29/2006 7:24:06 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: pabianice

FoxNews Alert

Warning to children and old women in walkers: move to the side as the Lib Congresscritters rush to the microphones and TV cameras.
100 posted on 06/29/2006 7:24:13 AM PDT by TomGuy
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