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jackreade |
06/30/06 |
uSpreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Trials
President Says He'll Seek Congressional Approval for Tribunals
By TERENCE HUNT, AP
WASHINGTON (June 29) - "After a Supreme Court decision overruling war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees, President Bush suggested Thursday he would seek Congress' approval to proceed with trying terrorism suspects before military tribunals.
"To the extent that there is latitude to work with the Congress to determine whether or not the military tribunals will be an avenue in which to give people their day in court, we will do so," he said. "The American people need to know that the ruling, as I understand it, won't cause killers to be put out on the street."
Bush said little more, saying he had received only a "drive-by briefing" on the ruling just out earlier Thursday morning.
The Supreme Court decided that Bush's proposed trials for certain detainees at the controversial U.S. prison in Cuba were illegal under U.S. law and international Geneva conventions. A separate opinion, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, appeared to invite Bush to go to Congress to seek the authority to change that, and Bush's short answer indicated that is his intention.
The president declined to say whether the decision would prompt him to more quickly follow through on his promise to close the prison, as many world leaders and human rights groups have urged.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said later that Bush still wants to close the Guantanamo Bay facility once the administration can determine what to do with the prisoners, and he said the Supreme Court decision does not affect that."
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Clarification/Follow-up by jackreade on 06/30/06 12:52 am:
Bill Press opines:
"There’s nothing I like better than seeing George Bush smacked down.
And, make no mistake about it, yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on Gitmo was a royal smack-down for the Bush man.
It repudiates everything Bush and Cheney have asserted since September 11.
Bush said he could do whatever he wanted to in conducting the war on terror, with no further congressional authority.
The Supreme Court said he’s wrong.
Bush said detainees in the war on terror have no rights.
The Supreme Court said he’s wrong.
Bush said, in the war on terror, the United States is not bound by the Geneva Conventions.
The Supreme Court said he’s wrong.
Bush said we could round up suspects and hold them for years, without a trial, without counsel, without charges being filed against them.
And the Supreme Court said he’s wrong.
What a repudiation of everything George Bush stands for. And what an embarrassment for this pitiful excuse for a president.
He denied over 500 others a fair trial. And yet, in his own fair trial, before his very own, conservative Supreme Court, George Bush lost – to Osama bin Laden’s driver!
O Justice! How sweet it is.
I couldn’t have written a better decision myself".
Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 06/30/06 9:41 pm:
Yeah, I said dark.
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