Posted on 06/12/2008 7:04:11 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts.
The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5 to 4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than six years. About 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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It just proves that it does matter who sits on the Supreme court and for that matter, who selects them...
Testing 123 are we back up?
Effin’ SCOTUS just gave the Gitmo detainees a get out of jail free card.
“Effin’ SCOTUS just gave the Gitmo detainees a get out of jail free card.”
No, we’ll just find an Arab ally that is willing to hold them, and interrogate them, and if there is anything left of them after that, house and feed them.
It is another reason that the left supports terrorist and the destruction of these United States. If they are allowed to be freed then they should be sent to the cities where the lawyers, and the people who paid the lawyers, came from that support al-Qaeda and got them free so they can be near their Comrades.
This Supreme Court, supremely “useless” in a time of war.
Democrat perfidy, they are traitors.
The President should defy this ruling!
“Ever evolving, constantly changing”....
"Setback for America," he means. At least the liberals are clearly identified with this clearly anti-American stab.
That the justices asserted jurisdiction is an incredible contortion in conflict with so much of the rest of jurisprudence.
I see a conflict with the Executive Branch as the judiciary branch would attempt to wrest control some matters military away from the CIC. That can't be constitutional, which is a determination for the Executive Branch need not be dependent on the judiciary.
No question, though, Bush should have these enemy combatants removed to another foreign country to pre-empt further damage by the judiciary in this separation of powers conflict.
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The stench from the bench is making me clench.
Seriously, I need to read the opinion but this appears to be one huge slippery slope. All we'll be left with is the Ripley Option.
Let’s let Khalid Sheikh Ron Jeremy Rosie Mohammad out on bail and give him a subsidized apartment in downtown DC, with food stamps and a prepaid cellphone with international calling plan so he can call all his Islamist friends. That’s what they want, isn’t it?
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Easy solution....TAKE NO PRISONERS! Dead terrorists don’t sue.
Interrogate and eliminate. Simple.
Not really. Reagan pick Kennedy and GHW Bush picked Souter. Had it not been for Alito, it would have been 6-3 not 5-4.
I hope people will wake their asses up after this ruling, but I doubt it.
Ford picked Stephens, so three appointees appointed by a Republican President. Kennedy is the swing vote.
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