Reuters: Republican Judge Takes Aim at Bush Terror Policies

[VTGold]

This isn't directly election related really but thought it would bring hope that maybe tides are turning - and maybe things like this would help the vote challenge)

http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=7199403

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Far from the typical corporate Christmas card, a former U.S. federal judge's law firm is embracing controversy with holiday cards showing the historic Supreme Court session where he successfully challenged the Bush administration's treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.

Even more unusually, the attorney who argued the case before the nation's highest court is a Republican and former federal appeals judge appointed by President Richard Nixon.

"Human rights issues are not Republican or Democratic issues," said John Gibbons, whose arguments led to the Supreme Court's landmark June ruling that foreign terror suspects held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba can have access to U.S. courts.

Gibbons, a former chief judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, told Reuters that he has never heard criticism of his fight for detainee rights from other lawyers, regardless of their party affiliation.

"I don't know any organized bar group that has taken the position that the government is right. I think most lawyers probably think the government has gone crazy," he said.

more:
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=7199403

[Alizaryn]

1. Thanks for the link!

[floridadem30]

2. thanks for the post n/t

[razoroccam]

3. Republican judge

When thieves fight among themselves.......

[wendypan]

4. You rock VTGold

Visit us more often

[IHeart1993]

5. Kick!

:kick:

[w4rma]

6. Idiots like Lieberman are going to allow Repukes to take THIS issue from

Dems. Folks like that Judge should be Democrats, now.

[genieroze]

7. Eating their own....excellant. eom

[FreeCajun]

8. WOW!

:kick:

The tide may well be turning!

[ailsagirl]

9. Thanks for the positive article!!