Thread: Guantanamo Ruling by SCOTUS
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Old 08-06-2006, 09:49 PM   #211 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ZX3 View Post
SCOTUS said otherwise. But they did not have the authority to make such a decision. The Geneva Convention does not treat every Tom, Dick or Harry who picks up a gun the same as an established armed force.
Of course the Supreme Court has the authority to check the power of the president. "Checks and balances" remember? President Bush invented a new catagory of fighter in order to circumvent the protection of the Geneva Conventions, and the Supreme Court called his bullshit.
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