US Supreme Court Blocks Guantanamo Bay Military Tribunals, page 1
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Topic started on 29-6-2006 @ 09:53 AM by shots
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the military tribunals set up by President Bush and his administration to try prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are illegal and must be abandoned. The ruling means US officials will have to come up with a new policy/policies to prosecute at least 10 alleged "enemy combatants" awaiting trial. In addition the ruling does not dispute the government's right to detain suspects.





news.yahoo.com
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said the proposed trials were illegal under U.S. law and international Geneva conventions.

The case focused on Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a bodyguard and driver for Osama bin Laden. Hamdan, 36, has spent four years in the U.S. prison in Cuba. He faces a single count of conspiring against U.S. citizens from 1996 to November 2001.

Two years ago, the court rejected Bush's claim to have the authority to seize and detain terrorism suspects and indefinitely deny them access to courts or lawyers. In this follow-up case, the justices focused solely on the issue of trials for some of the men.




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The story is still breaking so full ramifications of this decision are unknown too me, however I do think this means that the president will be forced to move all the prisoners to other countries or just release them to their home country of origin.

Later news is now reporting that this ruling does not prohibit the US from putting them on trial. The ruling simply blocks a Military Tribunal while leaving a trial by Military Court Marshal perfectly legal.

US Supreme Court Brief in Full

This is starting to make some sense now in that a Court Marshal does afford prisoners almost the same privileges as our civilian courts do. The good part about a Court Marshal is they do not get endless appeals as is the case with our civilian court system.


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[edit on 29-6-2006 by DontTreadOnMe]


reply posted on 29-6-2006 @ 03:25 PM by andy1033
www.prisonplanet.com...

look at the vid on here. the government will do what it wants anyway.


reply posted on 29-6-2006 @ 04:03 PM by marg6043
Originally posted by andy1033
www.prisonplanet.com...

look at the vid on here. the government will do what it wants anyway.


I will have to agree with you . . . sadly but true, after all the present administration is under war powers and the president has that in his favor to pursue any avenue in his given powers to find ways to keep doing what he does.

No, Guantanamo will no be closed by any means . . . and prisoners in Guantanamo will never be able to see the light in any of our courts in the states.

They just . . . will fade away into nothingness.


reply posted on 30-6-2006 @ 01:50 AM by jsobecky
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
He already said he was going to go around the Supreme Court with it. How nice it must be to spit on the people we have appointed to interperet our laws because his monkeyboys weren't powerful enough to judge in his favor, he is gonna bypass them.

Where did he say he was going to "go around the Supreme Court"? That's total BS.

Originally posted by Astronomer70
Now the Bush Administration will either have to try them in civil courts or in court martials and it doesn't matter to me which way they choose.

I'd rather see them face courts martial.

f course Congress could reinstate the military tribunal methodology by passing new leglislation to set up the framework for such. From what I have read since this ruling was handed down they may decide to do exactly that.

Yes, as a matter of fact, some members of Congress have been proposing this approach for months.

Originally posted by subz
What about giving trials to all those detained in Gitmo instead of indefinate detention? The War on Terror is not a real war. These people are suspected criminals, not combatants. 10 on trial out of hundreds detained is a farce.

How do you know they are not combatants?

This should hopefully assist in the law suits Donald Rumsfeld, Bush and Dick Cheney are facing regarding the illegal detention and torture experienced by those detained in Gitmo.

This should hopefully help to have any frivolous lawsuits like that summarily dismissed.

In other news I hear that AIDS viruses are being detained as illegal pathogens in Camp Petri Dish. The Executive branch maintains its right, under war time powers (War on AIDS), to carry out any interogation tactics they wish including physical stress methods

Lame. Who would be against wiping out the AIDS virus?


reply posted on 30-6-2006 @ 02:49 AM by Astronomer70
Originally posted by subz
What about giving trials to all those detained in Gitmo instead of indefinate detention? The War on Terror is not a real war. These people are suspected criminals, not combatants. 10 on trial out of hundreds detained is a farce.


Indeed they were combatants Subz--well not all of them, but many of them were captured in Afganistan during the actual fighting there. I know little about the rest of them and so cannot comment on them.

No one is surprised that these kangaroo courts were deemed illegal by the US Supreme Court. This should hopefully assist in the law suits Donald Rumsfeld, Bush and Dick Cheney are facing regarding the illegal detention and torture experienced by those detained in Gitmo.


I don't really have any of the facts pertaining to alleged torture being used in Gitmo. I have read articles stating that such was going on, but again, I just don't know enough yet to comment intelligently.

This War on Terror crud is starting to fray at the edges and im glad!


I don't know if it is fraying at the edges, but I'm sure getting tired of it.

In other news I hear that AIDS viruses are being detained as illegal pathogens in Camp Petri Dish. The Executive branch maintains its right, under war time powers (War on AIDS), to carry out any interogation tactics they wish including physical stress methods


Even if they come up with a cure we won't get to use it because of the illegal method in which it was obtained--it will be deemed inadmissible in hospitals.

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