High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case

[deminks]

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and overturn what they called an extreme ruling by high court nominee John Roberts.

Roberts was on a three-judge federal appeals court panel that last month ruled against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was Osama bin Laden's driver.

Hamdan's attorneys said in their filing with the justices that the appeals court had rejected long-standing constitutional and international law.

"Its decision vests the president with the ability to circumvent the federal courts and time-tested limits on the executive. No decision, by any court, in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has gone this far," wrote Hamdan attorney Neal Katyal, a law professor at Georgetown University.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050808/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_military_tribunals_1

[rodeodance]

1. So glad to see they are pushing this or bushco would reign high like the

king that he thinks he is.

[VegasWolf]

2. Bill O'Riley says that he would just kill every single one of them on

his talk show.

[jsamuel]

3. This is REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!

The ruling by John Roberts is what got him the nom. It goes directly against the balance of powers in the constitution. Anyone ever heard of Bastille Day?