the Supreme Court’s decision Thursday stripped away the legal premise for the remote prison camp that officials opened six years ago in the belief that American law would not reach across the Caribbean to a United States naval station in Cuba.
“To the extent that Guantánamo exists to hold detainees beyond the reach of U.S. courts, this blows a hole in its reason for being,” said Matthew Waxman, a former detainee affairs official at the Defense Department.
And without that, much will change. NYTimes.com
Man, that has to suck. You go to all the trouble of stacking the court and then they screw you with your pants on. Hahahahaha...
Cheney must be livid. Sorry Dick no gulags' for you. At least not ones you send people to. Damn those activist judges...
UPDATE
President Bush on Thursday strongly disagreed with a Supreme Court ruling that clears foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. --a.p.George, clearly nobody gives a shit what you think.
Hear that train coming George? Thats irrelevancy... choo choo!
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