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[theweaselking]

US Supreme Court tosses "detainee treatment act", declares that prisoners *do*, in fact, have rights in the USA.

The judgement, unsurprisingly, was 5-4, with the 5 fact-based judges overruling the 4 faith-based crazy people.

Of course, this only applies to the few prisoners we know about, who are held in the few "official" prisons, and not the ones who are completely denied all access to legal counsel while they're raped, tortured, and murdered after having been disappeared, but it's a start.

Comments

[theamaranth.livejournal.com]

it's a step in the right direction, at least.

how ANYONE could say prisoners don't have basic rights?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I particularly like the language slapping the Executive and Legislative branches for thinking that they can exclude the Judiciary from the process. That will come in handy in a far broader scope than I think anyone realizes just yet.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_jeremiad/]

I'd never heard it being called "disappeared," but the more I think about it, the more it fits.

Fuck.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

From the Roberts dissent:

So who has won? ...certainly not the American people, who today lose a bit more control over the conduct of this Nation’s foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges.

So... Roberts hates himself?

Of course, there's also the Scalia dissent, but we already expect the Scalia dissent to be hilarious.

[graethorne.livejournal.com]

Roberts never should've been allowed NEAR the SCotUS... let alone appointed to it.

As was said above, this ruling is a start. There's a lot more that needs to be addressed, tho'... including an impeachment festival, which must -unlike the Nixon fiasco- be continued afeter the change of regeime next January. History must show that -no matter how spastic a frenzy the populace and government plunge into- excesses perpetrated in the midst (especially those with totalitarian ulterior motives) WILL be redressed.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Don't impeach the Bush League. Extradite 'em instead.

-- Steve's thinking that the ICC would get serious cred if it had Cheney (in full Hannibal Lector regalia, of course) before it.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

I seriously did my "happy dance" in front of my CO when I heard about this and he wanted to know what I was so excited about...

"The Constitution's not DEAD, Sir. I'd say that's worth a happy dance."