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SUPREME COURT | Rule Against Bush/McCain P.O.W. Policy

For the third straight time, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against President Bush's detainee policies. Not that the President has actually followed any of the rulings. Seriously, how does one - especially the President of the United States - get away with ignoring three rulings from the highest court in our country?!?

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.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."

Kennedy said federal judges could ultimately order some detainees to be released, but that such orders would depend on security concerns and other circumstances.

It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.

The ruling could resurrect many detainee lawsuits that federal judges put on hold pending the outcome of the high court case.

Another question to ask McCain at tonight's Town Hall forum, who was the co-sponsor of the the law that allowed Bush to circumvent the first two Supreme Court rulings and keep detainees illegally detained: As someone who was a P.O.W., how is it that you believe it is acceptable to keep our P.O.W.'s kept in conditions that been thrice ruled unconstitutional by our Supreme Court?

To review, the Supreme Court just ruled that Bush and McCain have acted against the best interests of America and the laws of the constitution..............

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telex:

"foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts," that statement is just so backwards and disturbing, I don't understand what it could possibly be based on.

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