US TOP COURT RULES GUANTANAMO PRISONERS CAN CHALLENGE THEIR CONFINEMENT BEFORE FEDERAL JUDGES

[sweet baby jesus]

A HEADLINE WORTHY OF ALL CAPS!!

:patriot: :woohoo:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WAT009654.htm

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WAT009654.htm

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Habeas Corpus is not a constitutional right; it is a human right.

Nazis at Nuremburg were given due process. That was not the gift of a generous victor. That was a recognition that whatever they might have done, they were still human beings and had a universal right to due process.

Terror suspects at Guantánamo are no less human, regardless of what they might have done.

[Echo In Light]

6. "regardless of what they might have done" - being poor farmers in Afghanistan

[Jim__]

2. A fucking 5-4 ruling. Unbelievable.

I wonder who the 4 were. :sarcasm:

[Supersedeas]

3. I'll take a wild guess -- Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, Alito: the Bushies

[Jim__]

5. Yup!

In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants."

Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also dissented.

Scalia said the nation is "at war with radical Islamists" and that the court's decision "will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."

Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and John Paul Stevens joined Kennedy to form the majority.

[G_j]

4. wow, close wasn't it?

5 - 4, that is scary, but this is good news!

[Lex]

7. kick

:kick: