Are Dudya and Rummy War Criminals? The SCOTUS Ruling
Put forth on June 29, 2006 by XicanoPwr
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The US Supreme Court ruled that the so-called “Guantanamo Bay military commission” failed to meet the requirements of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions.
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Congress did not take away the Court’s authority to rule on the military commissions’ validity, and then went ahead to rule that President Bush did not have authority to set up the tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and found the commissions illegal under both military justice law and the Geneva Convention. In addition, the Court concluded that the commissions were not authorized when Congress enacted the post-9/1l resolution authorizing a response to the terrorist attacks, and were not authorized by last year’s Detainee Treatment Act. The vote against the commissions and on the Court’s jurisdiction was 5-3, with the Chief Justice not taking part.
Marty Lederman of SCOTUSblog stated that the Court held that Common Article 3 of Geneva aplies as a matter of treaty obligation to the conflict against Al Qaeda. In other words:
This almost certainly means that the CIA’s interrogation regime is unlawful, and indeed, that many techniques the Administation has been using, such as waterboarding and hypothermia (and others) violate the War Crimes Act (because violations of Common Article 3 are deemed war crimes).
Can we begin the impeachment of our war criminals NOW!!!!
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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you know, so many people seem so optomistic about this, but i don’t know, i wasn’t much impressed. i tried to be, but of course, within hours, bush was saying he would just go through congress instead. and congress has already proven how strong they are at standing up to him. so i think it’s just a matter of time before it’s written into law. i see it being done before the elections, actually. hm, i’m feeling pretty darn cynical tonight tho, maybe i’ll feel better and more impressed in the morning.
I know what you mean. I have been reading the same thing too. What really gets to me is the fact that we will actually create the law that will allow for this injustice to continue.
you would think that the left would take news like this and really make people hear it. and then do something about it. why are the democrats not standing up for us??? or for those who need it???
and as says bfp…soon our ridiculous congress will make it ok for w.
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