Tag: "SCOTUS"
Justice Kennedy Has Decided that He’s Going to Run Things for a While.
I must highlight this bit of Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion from today’s SCOTUS case. The background here is that in a prior case, the SCOTUS decided (in a similar vote) that detainees are entitled to habeus corpus rights like citizens of the US because Guantanamo Bay is actually a sovereign part of the United States. [...]
SCOTUS Says that You and the Islamists are All the Same to the Constitution
What has the Supreme Court done?? 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 [...]
That’s What You Said