Posted on 06/29/2004 11:04:13 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration must regroup legally and politically after the Supreme Court dealt a major setback to the government's anti-terrorism tactics since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The high court refused to endorse the White House claim of authority to seize and detain terrorism suspects and indefinitely deny access to courts or lawyers while interrogating them.
Monday's rulings in a trio of cases dealing with the rights of prisoners mean that detainees, whether potential terrorist threats or victims of circumstance, have greater rights to challenge their captivity in U.S. courts and force the government to explain itself.
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Don't get too upset about this. The courts are not likely to let these guys go. The fact that the courts will be involved might have the side effect that they will be busy doing this, instead of morer mischievous stuff.
I hope W. says something like Andy Jackson...and to paraphrase it since I can't quote it from my dim memory, "Mr. Marshall's court has made it's ruling. Now let's see him enforce it."
Well, another way to look at this (albeit cynical) is that they just need to make sure they have no 'prisoner' enemy combatants...just 'casualty' enemy combatants....
I think that as a practical matter, that is how it will work out. There might be a lower court or two that will order release, but the appeals courts are not going to allow it, if they get that far. The lower courts might actually be military tribunals.
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