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Enemy Combatant Supreme Court Decision: A Reason To Vote McCain?

June 14, 2008

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So far….the sure to be Supreme Court vacancies may be the only reason to vote for John McCain. You just know that the liberal Justices are waiting to announce their retirement until after the 2008 election. Thus the reason why McCain must win. It’s certainly not for his policies on energy and immigration.

Thanks to PKM who sent me this article written for National Review Online and authored by Peter Wehner titled:

Supreme Disgrace
Thursday’s Guantánamo Bay decision was a power grab.

How true….a power grab from the Executive and Legislative branches of government after the agreements worked out between them “seemed” to work. The liberal media has declared the Guantánamo detainee decision as a defeat for the Bush administration. No folks, it was not a defeat for the President at all! But it was for all Americans —especially our men and women in harms way.

Please read this excellent essay by Mr. Wehner, partially reproduced below with links to take you to the full article.

Supreme Disgrace
Thursday’s Guantánamo Bay decision was a power grab.

By Peter Wehner

I have now read through the Supreme Court’s decision, as well as the dissents, in Boumediene v. Bush, in which the Court held that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantánamo Bay have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in U.S. courts. In doing so, the Court, in Chief Justice Roberts’s words, “strikes down as inadequate the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.”

It’s worth considering what needed to be done in order to achieve this outcome.

The Court decided that for the first time in American history, non-American enemy combatants detained abroad, in the course of an ongoing war, had a constitutional right to habeas corpus (a proceeding used to review the legality of a prisoner’s confinement in criminal cases). Please click HERE to read the remainder of the article.

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