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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:38 PM
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What is status of GITMO trial in the Supreme Court????
Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 03:45 PM by MissWaverly
I have included Justice Breyer's remarks from
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
SALIM AHMED HAMDAN, Petitioner, v. No. 05-184 DONALD H. RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE, ET AL. Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 28, 2006
snip below came from oral argument before the Supreme Court of the US


JUSTICE BREYER: -- that issue in -- don't -- ignore my question, which is the
same as Justice Kennedy's, if it doesn't help. I'm trying to focus this.
And, in my mind, I take their argument as saying, "Look, you want to try a
war crime. You want to say this is a war crimes tribunal. One, this is not a war,
at least not an ordinary war. Two, it's not a war crime, because that
doesn't fall under international law. And, three, it's not a war crime tribunal
or commission, because no emergency, not on the battlefield, civil courts are open,
there is no military commander asking for it, it's not in any of those in other
respects, like past history. And if the President can do this, well, then he
can set up commissions to go to Toledo, and, in Toledo, pick up an alien, and not
have any trial at all, except before that special commission."
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MissWaverly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-20-06 03:52 PM
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1. Case to be decided by Supreme Court soon
If Guantánamo has finally reached critical mass as a worldwide issue, it is because of two intertwined activist campaigns: courtroom litigation and social protest. It is hard to think of an issue since the waning of the civil rights movement that has brought together volunteer lawyers from white-shoe firms like Jenner & Block in Chicago and religious activists and radical witness-bearers like the members of Catholic Worker, who in December staged a pilgrimage to Cuba, to the camp's boundaries. Thanks to the lawyers, the Supreme Court is expected to rule within weeks in the Hamdan case on the constitutionality of Rumsfeld's military tribunals; thanks to the activists, look for protest and other actions nationwide on June 26, the UN's International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060612/editors
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