"A Sweeping And Categorical Defeat For The Administration"...
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In a decision hailed as "broad" and "historic," the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Bush administration's military commissions for Guantanamo detainees violated international law and federal statute. The New York Times called it a "sweeping and categorical defeat" for the Bush administration.
The event elicited strong reactions. The President of the Center For Constitutional Rights echoed the thoughts of many human rights lawyers present when he said, "it doesn't get any better." On the other side, almost immediately after the ruling Senators Lindsey Graham (R-Sc.) and John Kyl (R-Ar.) issued a joint statement saying they were "disappointed." The ruling was 5-3, with Justices Thomas, Scalia and Alito dissenting.
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Gitmo Ruling Blow to Expanding Presidential Power
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006J.shtml
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney spent much of their first term
bypassing Congress in the service of what they labeled a "different kind of
war." Now they will almost certainly plunge into negotiations they previously
spurned over the extent of the president's powers, this time in the midst of a
midterm election in which Bush's wartime strategies and their consequences have
emerged as a potent issue.
Bruce Shapiro | A President Rebuked
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/063006K.shtml
"The only surviving World War II veteran on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul
Stevens, appointed three decades ago by a president as Republican as W.,
delivered the plain and airtight message: President Bush violated every standard
of the military code, the US Constitution and international law with its order
for military tribunals at Guantanamo," writes Bruce Shapiro.
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