{"id":1860,"date":"2008-06-12T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2008-06-12T11:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T15:57:22","slug":"supreme-court-surrenders-to-terrorist-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Surrenders to Terrorist Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today our nation was made much weaker by a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/court-gives-detainees-habeas-rights\/\">nuanced-thinking judges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas challenges to their detention. The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had not validly taken away habeas rights. If Congress wishes to suspend habeas, it must do so only as the Constitution allows \u2014 when the country faces rebellion or invasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts sums up the idiocy in his dissent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So who has won? Not the detainees. The Court\u2019s analysis leaves them with only the prospect of further litigation to determine the content of their new habeas right, followed by further litigation to resolve their particular cases, followed by further litigation before the D. C. Circuit\u2014where they could have started had they invoked the DTA procedure. Not Congress, whose attempt to \u201cdetermine\u2014 through democratic means\u2014how best\u201d to balance the security of the American people with the detainees\u2019 liberty interests, see Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U. S. 557, 636 (2006) (BREYER, J., concurring), has been unceremoniously brushed aside. Not the Great Writ, whose majesty is hardly enhanced by its extension to a jurisdictionally quirky outpost, with no tangible benefit to anyone. Not the rule of law, unless by that is meant the rule of lawyers, who will now arguably have a greater role than military and intelligence officials in shaping policy for alien enemy combatants. And certainly not the American people, who today lose a bit more control over the conduct of this Nation\u2019s foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges.<br \/>\nI respectfully dissent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this mean that every time a terrorist is captured, it must be handled like a police bust; crime scene secured and processed, evidence gathered, chain of custody, etc?  Do soldiers now have to read Miranda rights before taking a terrorist into custody?<\/p>\n<p>Simple solution really:  TAKE NO MORE PRISONERS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today our nation was made much weaker by a bunch of nuanced-thinking judges. In a stunning &hellip; <a title=\"Supreme Court Surrenders to Terrorist Lawyers\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1860\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Supreme Court Surrenders to Terrorist Lawyers<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}