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From Salon.
Thursday June 12, 2008 10:51 EDT
Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military
Commissions Act
In a major rebuke to the Bush administration's theories of presidential
power -- and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political
class which has supported the Bush detention policies -- the U.S.
Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 decision (.pdf), declared Section 7 of the
Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutional. The Court struck down
that section of the MCA because it purported to abolish the writ of
habeas corpus -- the means by which a detainee challenges his detention
in a court -- despite the fact that Constitution permits suspension of
that writ only "in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion."
Oh goody, eight hundred years of English common law isn't to be chucked
out the window (habeas corpus).
In 1214, while vying for his land in France, the French in the Battle of
Bovine defeat King John. John's government in London rebeled and force
him to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 at Running Mead. For a little humor,
the book 1066 and All That by WC Sellar and RJ Yeatmen describe the
contents of the "Magna Garter" as:
1. "No one was to be put to death, save for some reason--
(except the Common People)
2. That everyone should be free--(except the Common People)
3. That everything should be of the same weight and measure
throughout the Realm--(except the Common People)
4. That the Courts should be stationary, instead of following
a very tiresome medieval official known as the King's
Person all over the country.
5. That "no person should be fined to his utter ruin"--
(except the Common People)
6. That the Barons should not be tried except by a special
jury of other Barons who would understand.
Magna Charter was therefore the chief cause of Democracy in England, and
thus a Good Thing for everyone (except the Common People)."
Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito and
(to be sure) Clarence Thomas wish to take us back to the good old days
before the 1215 battle of Running Mead.
Down with the Smirking Monkey.
--
Billy
Bush and Pelosi Behind Bars
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