You can read the HAMDAN v. RUMSFELD ruling here.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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One of the opinions I have read leads off with the Hague and how this adminstration can be there on war crimes if not careful. I found it very interesting that Specter came rightout with is trying to cover the a$$ of bush and his thugs.
…that the congress did not oversight to the war powers the president said he had that according to ur constituion, he doesn’t have.
can some one tell me what the dc circuit court has to do with all of this?
The Federal Appellate Court for the DC Circuit (aka DC Circuit Court) is the court that ruled in favor of the government in Hamdan after the lower court had ruled in favor of Hamdan.
Chief Justice Roberts was on the court at that time, which is why he had to recuse himself from the case when it made it up to the Supreme Court.
ok, now I understand that much…thanks, E
Thanks for the link, Boo. The decisions make quite interesting reading.
This is a very big slap down to the Administration. It will be interesting to see what they do now. No doubt some new and even more contorted ‘legal’ scheme will be drawn up.
The most personally staggering thing I discovered, in the first paragraph of the first decision, is that the US Congress actually legislated (or purported to legislate) last year (Detainee Treatment Act §1005(e)(1)) to prevent applications for habeas corpus by aliens detained at Guantanamo Bay. You guys really do live in a facist state…