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July 4, 2004: SCOTUS - In league with the terrorists?
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My conservative friends
will bemoan all this, and say Monday’s decisions from the Supreme Court just show that the nation is disintegrating
as we are now told by activist judges not to trust the president. Maybe so. Four of the nine justices concluded that constitutional due process rights demand that a citizen
held in the United States as an enemy combatant must be given "a meaningful opportunity" to contest case for his detention
before a neutral party. Two more justices agreed that the detention of American
citizen Yaser Hamdi was unauthorized and that the terror suspect should have a real chance to offer evidence he is not an
enemy combatant. Oh? Why? Don’t they trust the president? … the court has "made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the president when
it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens." No blank check, huh? United States courts have jurisdiction to consider challenges to the legality of the detention
of foreign nationals captured abroad in connection with hostilities and incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay. Geez, keeping these guys
in Cuba and saying our laws didn’t apply there – as it wasn’t really part of the United States? No dice. For over two years, the Bush Administration have tried to have it their way, not the Constitutional
way. These decisions are a stern rebuke. The Executive Branch may not be the sole arbiter of who is detained and for how long.
Detainees must have access to counsel and the courts. Yeah, yeah. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday warned police away from using a strategy intended
to extract confessions from criminal suspects before telling them of their right to remain silent. Once more. Huh? |
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