The Supreme Court this week overturned a lower court's dismissal of an action by Guantanamo detainees to have their status as detainees reviewed by civilian courts instead of presidentially configured military tribunals. Make no mistake about it: the person or entity that gets to decide an issue is frequently as important as the laws or facts at issue themselves. Wasn't it the Queen of Hearts in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" (or Disney's "Alice in Wonderland", if you'd rather) who said "words mean what I say they mean"? Or, you can consider justice as rendered by Judge Roy Bean, in the clip below:
You can review the decision yourself, if that sort of thing appeals to you, at: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/06-1195.pdf
8 comments:
knowing this administration, "abiding by the court's decision" means "moving the whole thing to a foreign country, off u.s. soil, where that pesky Constitution can't bug us any more.
Disappointing.
Chase, that was what I think they were trying to do by keeping them in Guantanamo to start with. This decision at least helps a little by saying the right to Habeas Corpus applies at Guantanamo.
Kate, the federal statute that this weakens was pretty bad. It is very disappointing that only five of the nine Justices voted to rule that that the portion of the statute that violated the Constitution, but at least the Court is standing up to Bush for a change.
More importantly, did you like the
Roy Bean clip?
Albinos fall into that ever shrinking category of people you can still laugh at without being socially stigmatised. (and that shit is funny)
Glad you liked it, John.
Your clips are always entertaining. Roy Bean included.
Or maybe I'm just easily entertained after hanging alone and writing about finance for a while and for several days to come.
That could be it.
Finance? Now that's scary!
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