Friday, June 30, 2006

See for yourself how the US Supreme Court ignored precedent, law, and tradition, thus giving aid and comfort to our enemies.

Thanks to Laura Ingraham for these links.

THE HAMDAN DECISION:
Read the case, and pay particular attention to the dissents in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. (We know it's 184 pages, but there are many important things in here).

BTW, we should all thank God there are still a few real American men like Clarence Thomas.


Five Wrong
By NRO Writers
National Review

The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, enacted last December, gives the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., exclusive jurisdiction to review habeas-corpus petitions from the terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay. The act also expressly provides that, other than that court, "no court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider . . . an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . . ." Legislative word-smithing does not get much clearer than that. Equally clear is Congress's authority to restrict the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; Article III, Section 2, of the Constitution describes that the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is subject to "such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."

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