The Supreme Court's Habeas Corpus Decision

[Terri]

By Harris R. Sherline
June 30, 2008

Split 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down a decision about habeas corpus rights of enemy combatants that Senator John McCain characterized as "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." I agree and here's why:

Henry Mark Holzer, professor emeritus at Brooklyn Law School, made the following points, among others, in an article titled, "The Supreme Court Wins, America Loses," in which he notes,

- "...for the first time in our Nation's history, the court confers a constitutional right to habeas corpus on alien enemies detained abroad by our military forces in the course of an ongoing war."

- "...the Court was able to review the case, in light of its long-standing practice of waiting until lower federal courts have an opportunity to rule."

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[rickeysays]

If Bush doesn't like this decision, he only has himself to blame. By setting aside all principles on which this country was founded when deciding how to deal with these people, he forced the court to rein him in.

[rickeysays]

You know what I can't figure out about right-wingers. I read something like "drill here" and I think, ok, you guys are just "laissezfaire" libertarians, social darwinians. But then I read the "supreme court needs oversight" and I say, no, you guys are moral fascists who want to dictate how everybody else lives. How can you be so schizophrenic, economically libertarian and socially fascist?

[Terri]

Rickeysays! Is that something like Simonsays?

Well, I'll play.

GOPUSAsays, beat it, troll! You're banned!

[candles]

Terri, I did not know what to say to this person. I did not want to get banned myself for what I was thinking.