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This is especially evident given the revelations through the last several years that the vast majority of prisoners at Guantanamo are not terrorists or were not even combatants, but instead were innocent people turned in either as straight monetary transaction rewards or personal vendettas in local feuds.
Roberts, Alito, Scalia, and Thomas are emotional, quasi-paranoid, and anti-democratic fearmongers. Some strict constructionists, this outlaw gang of four, these radical activists in sheep's robes!
Thank you, Justice Anthony Kennedy.
well, that and Scalia, Alito and Roberts suck.
Who the fuck is he? So much for being a warden.
I don't figure how John Roberts came to that conclusion without putting on his Backwards Hat.
we've never held 'enemy combatants' before 9/11... we had POW's. there's a difference, according to chimpco. And chimpco wrote the book (literally) on dealing with 'enemy combatants'.
I guess the torture guidelines are the 'procedural protections' he's talking about.
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So... essentially... we've got a Supreme Court member who has no faith in the American justice system or our Constitution.
Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Roberts and Alito both promised to decide cases as “umpires,” without “agendas” or “any preferred outcome in any particular case.” And they said they would be guided by precedent: stare decisis. They lied, of course, as is evident in their recent decisions. Unfortunately, since their rulings are open to endless interpretation, charges of perjury will likely lead nowhere.
In view of their few rulings to date (and I fear, far worse to come), it appears that the five controlling justices (Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Scalia and Thomas) do not see themselves as the guardians of established law and the Constitution. They are activists, championing the agenda of the mega-corporations and the religious right, at the expense of the rights of minorities, the poor, and ordinary individual citizens. They are, in short, the judicial exemplars of Bush-Cheney Inc.
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maybe shortly after the crusades when there wasn't anyone left alive to challenge those policies?
did I mention I'm a recovering Catholic?
You may think his legal arguments are wrong, but it's unfair to say he didn't make legal arguments.
... now, LOST? yeah, I'm hooked... just sayin'
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generally have to be bright enough to also read some kind of news or blogs
or at least think.
I am talking about the beer swilling, NASCAR watching, crotch scratchin
white trash down heah that will pull the McCain lever because they simply
cannot vote for a black man. Regardless of how fucked their lives are.
:-)
I pray DC/Maryland/Virginia area restaurant employees regularly spit and pee into his food.
The administration has long argued that the detainees constitute enemy combatants whether they were captured on the battle field, in uniform or in civilian attire, bought off of bounty hunters or provided by foreign police in countries far from any battle field.
The Geneva conventions clearly define who are combatants in an armed conflict. The United States, as all other civilized nations, is a signatory to that treaty. The administration has attempted to muddy the definition as to who is or is not a combatant. The result has been hundreds of people captured who are loosely associated with terrorist organizations or who should be tried as civilians (indeed, the lead plaintiff in the case had been investigated and cleared by authorities in his own country) in a civilian court.
The Supreme Court originally agreed that an administrative process run by the military would suffice in order to provide adequate due process. It was the total and absolute failure of the Bush system to provide even rudimentary protections to the detained that cause the court to open the civilian system to their use.
There is no such thing as an 'enemy combatant'. There IS a legal term for the prisoners illegally held by the US government: Prisoners Of War.
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LOL!! Even though I don't believe in God, just in case, I will pray for that as well.
These documents are the founding cornerstones of American Law - NOT the 10 commandments!
Support for McCain means siding with anti-Law and anti-American forces that want to eliminate the US constitution and replace it with martial law based on man-made mythology called the 'bible'.
If you love western civilization, then you MUST vote against McCain!
Scalia is EVIL!!!