SCOTUS: Bush overstepped authority at Gitmo

Great. Lock 'em up and leave 'em there then.

Thought it was intereseting that the guy running Gitmo said they might have been able to prevent the recent suicides if it hadn't been for the Geneva Convention rules governing lighting in the cells.

 

Armchair, the commandant at Gitmo is a prime candidate for a war crimes trial his own self. His testimony is suspect under the way too much self-interest rule

 

I'm really looking forward to reading your legal analysis. Why I set aside my whole day to read your critique of Justice Thomas.....pity that you are going to let me do my own research. I planned on learning from one of the great minds of our time.

And you make being a condescending prick sound like a character fault.

 

The best measure of what a blow to the administration this is will be the lengths to which the administration goes to completely ignore it.
If they do, by the way, that's an impeachable offense.

Your Holiness -- Please, the vow of humility.

 

I don't have a problem with detaining terror suspects while they're investigated. But I will say that I have always expected the U.S. to hold itself to a higher standard than the world. We should always strive to respect the Geneva Convention and its tenants, because if you're in the military and captured by the enemy, you can only hope and pray that they'll do the same (which they likely won't). But we need to be better than those other countries.

 

Pope,

Clarence sealed it for me when he was the only justice who never asked a question in the landmark case when the Supremes decided who would be president in 2000 and I believe the only one not to present an opinion in the decision.

Sitting on your hands is no way to go through your career on the bench.

 

alley --
Also huge props to the JAG guys who fought this all the way up through the courts despite what I assume must have been some serious intra-service heat.

 

What's funny, Pope, is at no point have you tried to defend Thomas.

So have at it. Otherwise, I don't understand your sense of entitlement.

 

Ace, I don't think it's so much that he's been sitting on his hands, it's that he's been using them to give Fredo and this administration a reach-around.

 

I thought it was either that or a penile implant pump but I didn't want to say since I wasn't sure.

 

Understandable. Always better to take the cautious route in matters like this.

 

Never mind a healthy respect for the bench.