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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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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To: pabianice

Well, Bush has no reason to fear the next "big one"...he's done what he can but every tool to deal with a ruthless enemy is being stripped away.


21 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:06 AM PDT by zarf (It's not a question.....)
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To: pabianice

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana


22 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:09 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: pabianice

Damn it!!


23 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:12 AM PDT by Constitution Day (Down with Half-Assery!)
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To: pabianice
May have violated Geneva Convention

This seems the most outrageous..... We cannot win this war if we must rely on the Courts to fight it with us. I can't wait to hear Dr Levin tonight on this abomination.

24 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Ron in Acreage

And the terrorists. And the lawyers. Oh! Wait!

Same thing.....you got it right.


25 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:21 AM PDT by Jrabbit (Scuse me??)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

It seems to me that the idiots have just ruled on having our military never take enemy combatants prisoner again. There will be no such animal in the future. Amen.


26 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:24 AM PDT by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: CholeraJoe

Let's wait for the details.


27 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:26 AM PDT by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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To: Jrabbit
All the detainees are going to be shipped back to a Country that will deal with them harshly?

And if that happens do you the detainees will want to declare asylum?

28 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:44 AM PDT by thingumbob (Democracy is the best defense against terrorist/communist thugs!)
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To: Constitution Day

From now on we should kill them all where they stand.


29 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:47 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: pabianice

First the eminent domain ruling, now this. Unbelievable. WTF are they thinking?


30 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:50 AM PDT by khnyny (Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.- Winston Churchill)
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To: pabianice

Impeach the Supreme Court.


31 posted on 06/29/2006 7:16:57 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Dog
Yes ...but they are not covered by the Geneva convention.

Of course they are.

32 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:06 AM PDT by IMRight
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To: IMRight

How do they figure the detainees are covered under the Geneva convention?


33 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:08 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
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To: Ron in Acreage

Screw the DEMS...the American people got screwed here....what the hell do we do with people caught on the battlefield?


34 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:15 AM PDT by Dog (The founders gave freedom of the press to the people, they didn't give freedom to the press.)
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To: pabianice
2. May have violated Geneva Convention

May have? Many of the people caught were not wearing a uniform.

35 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:16 AM PDT by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: pabianice

Important to wait for details . . . MSM reported Texas redistricting decision the other day as win for Dems at first . . . turned out to be the opposite . . .


36 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:35 AM PDT by LikeLight
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To: pabianice

Okay. No more prisoners.

Leave them dead on the battlefield.


37 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:38 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: bnelson44

Court: "These are not prisoners of war and thus immune from military prosecution" ... WTF??


38 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:38 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: goodnesswins
Yes.....and that's probably why it went the way it did....so sad....

It would have still been 5-4.

39 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:41 AM PDT by IMRight
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To: pabianice

Oh man this is going to make all the Bush hating leftists and the Bush hating media drool with glee! DAMN!!!


40 posted on 06/29/2006 7:17:51 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
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