Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Supreme Court Bucks Bush

The Supreme Court in 2 decisions yesterday handed the Bush administration its largest defeat in their long lasting attack on our civil liberties. The administration has been holding U.S. and foreign born person in detention centers without charge or trial for the last two years. The Court allowed the doctrine of enemy combnatants to remain in tact but those deemed enemy combatants now have the right to have their status adjudicated in front of a court with an attorney. The Court did not go as far as I would have like but this is a significant set back for the Bush terror war ON U.S.. citizens. BTW I actually agree with Scalia in his dissent in which he said that they would have to charge U.S. citizens with either treason or another crime or let them go. The cases are discussed in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

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