newshoggers.com - 1/22/2009
—
It was close, but today the Supreme Court decided that America should observe the rule of law by applying Habeas Corpus to detainees at the Gitmo prison complex. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to ...
eschatonblog.com - 1/22/2009
—
eschatonblog.com —
This one's finally dead. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The
government lost its final attempt Wednesday to revive a...
federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The Supreme Court said it won't ...
(more)
Scotus Sanity
Comments
Blog Reactions
Why Not Close Gitmo?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... a symbol of torture. You cannot argue against closing Gitmo without running into that stubborn fact. And, yes, the closure will be mostly symbolic. The real challenge is how we try detainees – especially those whose cases are tainted by torture. But the whole point of housing detainees at Gitmo was to put them outside of the American legal system, a practice that was struck down by the Supreme Court when it ruled that detainees have habeus rights. Here's what Cernig at Newshoggers wrote at the time of the ruling: ...
Blaming Obama For Bush's Gitmo Decisions
Crooks and Liars —
... proper trial - shouldn't these rightwing pundits be asking why the Bush administration made a political decision to let this guy go? Was there insufficient evidence? Was the evidence tainted by torture? Was he simply an innocent swept up by "arrest for bounty" tactics who became radicalized by his experience? What's the actual evidence for "suspecting" he has "returned" to terror?
Andrew Sullivan was kind enough to link to one of my old posts on this subject the other day in which I wrote:
Some very bad ...
Related Content
Look what SCOTUS is up to...
atlargely.com 1/11/2009 — This is very interesting indeed:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court served notice Friday that it may make a far-reaching change in civil rights law in 2009 and knock down a pair of long-standing rules that give special protection to minorities in the ...
More rights claimed for detainees
scotusblog.com 3/13/2009 — Reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling last June on the legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, lawyers for four Britons no longer held there by the U.S. argued that their rights include protection against torture during captivity. ...
SCOTUS gets one right – but …
westernfrontamerica.com 3/1/2009 — Humanists, atheists, socialists and liberals’ war against America’s Judeo-Christian traditions began in earnest in the late 1940s and can be summarized with a paraphrase of Justice Taney’s sentiments against black Americans and slaves ...
Sebelius says no Guantanamo detainees in Kansas | State
kansas.com 1/22/2009 — Associated Press TOPEKA - Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that she opposes any effort to move about 250 suspected terrorists being housed at Guantanamo Bay to Kansas and calls the entire detainee process "a huge black eye" for the United States. ...
Habeas Rights At Bagram
obsidianwings.blogs.com 2/24/2009 — by hilzoy From last Friday's NYT : "The Obama administration has told a federal judge that military detainees in Afghanistan have no legal right to challenge their imprisonment there, embracing a key argument of former President Bush’s legal ...
Gitmo Guards Often Attacked by Detainees
breitbart.com 1/21/2009 — WASHINGTON (AP) - The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons, Pentagon reports ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
