White House Lawyer Laments Bush Court Loss

[maddezmom]

By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Solicitor General Theodore Olson used his final day as the Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer to lament the court's decision siding with foreign terrorism suspects over the president.



He said Friday that the court term that ended last week held no good news for conservatives, especially the ruling that opened American courts to "enemy combatants" being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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During the speech at the Federalist Society, Olson said the term's moderate bent came about not because Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist yielded ground but because liberal Justice John Paul Stevens (news - web sites) exerted his influence.


Stevens, in authoring the opinion that gave Guantanamo Bay detainees rights to American courts, "ingeniously crafted the court's dramatic shift in habeas corpus jurisdiction for alien detainees who have never set foot in the United States," Olson said.


He said court members may have been influenced by reports about abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (news - web sites).


"The justices are human, and they may have been affected," Olson


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[arcos]

1. Olson just admitted he is not human, then... n/t

[maddezmom]

2. "influenced by reports"???

wonder if Ted thinks it's all frat games as well.

[amber dog democrat]

5. Wonder if he thinks....

at all.

I can only hope I could magically turn him into one of the detainees for say, a year.

Still would not teach him anything .

[ChompySnack]

3. They left out

"I don't suffer from that problem."

[DaveSZ]

4. Stevens is a hero

:beer::toast:

[struggle4progress]

6. Ted Olson is an enemy combatant.