(3-judge panel, 9th Circuit) Rules ALL GITMO detainees must have access to an attorney

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[mewzilla]

This'll be overturned.

[1Old Pro]

This, the Padilla, the 9th Circus will make it all the easier for Bush, and more importantly, GOP Senate candidates, to pound home the point about Judges next year

Correct, assuming the GOP Senate will actually make an attempt to drive this point home

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

It's time for this thought to start circulating like wildfire. Courts that come up with goofy rulings need to be ignored. There need not be any appeals etc. Just simply ignore them.

Agreed. If they want to legislate from the bench, them them try enforcing from the bench while they're at it.

[Mo1]

.....and next week, the Ninth Circus will rule the President must free Saddam.

The scary part is .. They would do just that

[swheats]

What's up? Judges must be on the warpath Saddam's no longer free.

Recess appointments coming soon.?

[CWOJackson]

I believe the President should go one step further and send the detainees back to Afganistan where they can arrange for the lawyer of their choice...I'm sure the Afgani's will hold off long enough for that.

[aynrandfreak]

Maybe these judges timed this bad news to try to blunt the good news of the Saddam capture. Unlike Albright, I'm not joking when I suggest that such a thing is possible.

[Poohbah]

Actually, I'd just shoot all the Gitmo detainees, then arrest the judges for treason, give them a drumhead court martial, and shoot them, too.

[oceanview]

don't count on it.

[guardian_of_liberty]

Love your tag line ming if I use it sometime?

[Liberty Valance]

Brave men fought and died to capture these b@st@rds! A military tribunal is the only sane way to handle this.

[oceanview]

we need a 15 year term limit for all federal judges, across the board, all the way to the supreme court. lifetime appointment to the bench is akin to living on the rule of kings.

[pchuck]

This is from a three judge panel from the 9th Circuit. The bottom line about this ruling: the panel has stayed the issuance of its mandate pending the U.S. Supreme Court's resolution of a case presenting this very same issue.

[StriperSniper]

to "An" attorney? Fine. Send ONE freaking attorney for them all -- Ron Kuby.

Ya think they could find a guard job for Curtis then? ;-)

[Thud]

Don't have a cow. It's the 9th. Here's the URL to a 79-page PDF opinion:

http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/429E2096892C3D8388256E00005FEB65/$file/0355785final.pdf?openelement

[the Real fifi]

Bummer

[mewzilla]

don't count on it.

I will, though :) I'm no lawyer, but from just what I've read already there's so much wrong with this ruling that you'd have to throw out the legal system to reconcile not overturning it.

[You Dirty Rats]

Did the 9th Circus also rule that Gitmo lies within the geographic boundaries of the 9th Circuit?

[highlander_UW]

Well, we can release these guys just like Padilla...in Antarctica, wearing Bermuda shorts.

[hankbrown]

Note: Graber dissents!