Spy court judge often ripped post-Sept. 11 detentions

[sabra]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/13463808.htm

Spy court judge often ripped post-Sept. 11 detentions
CRITIC WHO RESIGNED REMAINS ON FEDERAL BENCH AND WILL HAVE SAY ON GUANTÁNAMO CASE


Knight Ridder

The federal judge who quit the nation's secret spy court in protest over the Bush administration's covert domestic wiretaps has been one of the judiciary's most active and feisty critics of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, where the United States has held hundreds of foreigners for years without charge.

Despite his resignation from the spy court, U.S. District Judge James Robertson, 67, remains on the federal bench and is expected to issue another ruling in a Guantánamo case later this week.

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Duke University law Professor Scott Silliman cast Robertson as one of the judiciary's leading critics of the president's war powers; his Hamdan ruling declared the president's commissions both unconstitutional and in defiance of the Geneva Conventions.

``He feels strongly that the rule of law must pertain to some of these cases,'' said Silliman, who does not know the judge but has read his rulings. ``He is aware of the fact that until a court rules on what rights these detainees at Guantánamo Bay have, they are in legal limbo.''

[Lochloosa]

1. I predict some bad rulings for the * cabal

With this and the 4th District refusing to throw out the Padilla suit, it could be a bad year for the idiot.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. 4th Circ. is (was) pro bush. No longer. I guess they trust that scrap of

paper. That quaint aged document called the constitution.

There will be a steady drumbeat of bad news.
Unless politics intercedes in the Abramof negotiations and screw us like the did with the tobacco litigation, his turning on his fiends and coconspirators will be an extremely dangerous for the shitheads in power.

And lastly, we need to fully flush out the most obvious, least stated fact. frame it precisely and simply. Repeat it endlessly.
Bush is destroying our constitution. Period.