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(3-judge panel, 9th Circuit) Rules ALL GITMO detainees must have access to an attorney
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Posted on 12/18/2003 11:46:39 AM PST by Dog

AP via Fox news alert..

Lord help us from the judges..


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: 9thcircuit; courts; detainees; gitmo; jihadinamerica; judges; oligarchy
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To: alancarp
Wrong planet.
141 posted on 12/18/2003 12:35:47 PM PST by Thud
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To: Dog
I say ignore the 9th court.
142 posted on 12/18/2003 12:35:57 PM PST by demlosers (Light weight and flexible - radiation shielding is solved.)
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To: Thud
a different court is releasing Padilla.
143 posted on 12/18/2003 12:36:18 PM PST by oceanview
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To: PISANO
IMHO it is time for the SENATE to institute impeachment proceedings.

Never happen. Our Lovely Senate has proven time and time again that it doesn't even have the backbone of a squid.

144 posted on 12/18/2003 12:38:08 PM PST by TheBattman (Do it your way - just don't come crying to me when it doesn't work!)
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To: chookter
Even Castro is going to be upset by this ruling. The court took away Gitmo from him and gave it to the U.S. Can we stop paying rent now?
145 posted on 12/18/2003 12:38:13 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: smith288
Good place to put 'em. They wouldn't last 3 days up here before becoming Bear Scat.

We'd make DAMN sure of that.
146 posted on 12/18/2003 12:38:56 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (Those who do not accept peaceful change make a violent bloody revolution inevitable.)
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To: Frank_Discussion
The full court may meet and overrule..there are more than 3 judges on the 9tth circuit.
147 posted on 12/18/2003 12:38:59 PM PST by MEG33 (We Got Him!)
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To: Thud
It wouldn't surprise me if this is reversed en banc just like their most recent crazy decision. I can't imagine that this new ruling will be popular, even in California.
148 posted on 12/18/2003 12:39:22 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: TheBattman
Never happen. Our Lovely Senate has proven time and time again that it doesn't even have the backbone of a squid.

And the fact that it's not up to the Senate. US Const., Art. I, Sec. 2, Cl. 5.

149 posted on 12/18/2003 12:40:04 PM PST by Viva Le Dissention
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To: jimbo123
Court ruled Gitmo is US territory, not Cuban.

These guys have got to go!

150 posted on 12/18/2003 12:40:20 PM PST by demlosers (Light weight and flexible - radiation shielding is solved.)
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To: Dog
Exactly what authority does the 9th Circuit have over the case of terrorist "enemy combatants?

Which brings up the question - when did it become "normal" for people with a "cause" to shop around their case to find a friendly court? I thought our court systems were suppose to be organized so that each has it's own jurisdiction geographically and as to the types of cases it is responsible for.
151 posted on 12/18/2003 12:40:46 PM PST by TheBattman (Do it your way - just don't come crying to me when it doesn't work!)
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To: Dog
This court is wacko.

BTW, you're posting a bunch stories today.... You must be on vacation or something, right?

152 posted on 12/18/2003 12:41:14 PM PST by b4its2late (The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.)
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To: oceanview
Correct, and I put up a duplicate thread on the 2nd Circuit ruling, just after Dog's first. But 9th Circuit opinions aren't worth the paper they're printed on. I've lived in California all my life, went to law school here, etc., and nothing the 9th Circuit says can surprise me anymore. It's just useless.
153 posted on 12/18/2003 12:41:43 PM PST by Thud
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To: All
I've got to question the timing of this decision, being released the same week that the United States announced the capture of Saddam Hussein. It sounds like it could easily be a political move on the part of these Judges in an attempt to embarrass the Bush Administration, and to take scrutiny away from the recently publicized in-fighting amongst the Democratic candidates for President.

There has certainly been good solid news reported lately in both the economy and with the war on terrorrism, and I believe this may well be an attempt from the Left to squelch those headlines for the purposes of political gain.

Besides, I'm sure these Judges are angry at the Military for showing those embarrassing and degrading photos of the former Iraqi President. The International Community hasn't come down hard enough on the US for this atrocity, and so the Ninth Circuit is doing its part.

154 posted on 12/18/2003 12:41:50 PM PST by alancarp (Support Diversity: Hire a Neanderthal)
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To: Dog
Once again, I'm guessing this is from the 9th Circus.
155 posted on 12/18/2003 12:42:11 PM PST by Redbob (this space reserved for witty remarks)
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To: conservativefromGa
Declare war Bush! One way to keep these ______ away from the judges that will set them free to kill again. It's bad enough they let repeat sex offenders out, now the courts are letting out terrorists.
156 posted on 12/18/2003 12:42:27 PM PST by BushisTheMan
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To: alancarp
(wink)
157 posted on 12/18/2003 12:43:04 PM PST by alancarp (Support Diversity: Hire a Neanderthal)
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To: chookter
It is this view, in fact, which the majority of the court purports to reject. It holds that the lease and treaty effectively transfered substantive sovereignty to the U.S. with Cuba retaining a "reversionary" sovereign right -- i.e., Cuba's sole right is the right to resume sovereignty when the U.S. relinquishes occupancy, but in the mean time the U.S. is effectively sovereign. I'm not persuaded of that, although I do think the majority does a good job distinguishing Gitmo from the U.S. Army prison in Germany which was the location relevant to the Supreme Court case on which the government (and the dissenting judge) would rely.

GITMO does not qualify as US soil because the lease establishing the base in 1903 and re-established in 1934 upholds Cuban sovereignty of the land the base is on.

The US has neither Territorial Jurisdiction nor Sovereign Jurisdiction, we merely have 'Jurisdiction and Control'--in that we can exercise jurisdiction over crimes occuring ON that land and restrict access to that land.

Now take that tablecloth off your head...

158 posted on 12/18/2003 12:43:46 PM PST by only1percent
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To: Dog
The Padilla ruling, I understand. But how the h*ll do Us courts even claim jurisdiction over foreign citizens being held outside the country??? Their treatment should be solely determined by existing US treaties and agreements between our government and those of the detainees'. Grrrrr.
159 posted on 12/18/2003 12:44:14 PM PST by ellery
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To: ItsTheMediaStupid
God help us! You can bet that SCOTUS will use it to take away another right from us.

It depends what that turn-coat O'connor is thinking.

160 posted on 12/18/2003 12:44:17 PM PST by demlosers (Light weight and flexible - radiation shielding is solved.)
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