Good news with an ugly headline:
High Court sides with Guantanamo detainees again
This has nothing to do with taking sides. What the headline should have said is:
or
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court’s liberal justices were in the majority.
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The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the
Constitution, but that the system the administration has put in place
to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is
inadequate.
This is the reason why the U.S. elections are so important. I do not really like Obama’s policy proposals. But the danger of another wingnut judge replacing one of the moderate ‘liberals’ is just too big. This is the good reason to urge anyone who can to vote for him.