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« Maddox on Blogomania | Main | The Mythical "War on Christmas" » November 11, 2005Senate passes amendment to block Gitmo prisoners from court challengesThe US Senate voted 49-42 late Thursday to block Guantanamo Bay detainees from challenging their imprisonment in US federal courts. The legislation, proposed by GOP Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), conflicts with the 2004 US Supreme Court ruling in Rasul v. Bush, which held that according to the Court's interpretation of congressional intent, "aliens held at the base, like American citizens, are entitled" to challenge their detention. The amendment, attached to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill, received the support of three Democrats. Graham said of the amendment that "in the law of armed conflict, no nation has given an enemy combatant, a terrorist, an al-Qaida member the ability to go into every federal court in this United States and sue the people that are fighting the war for us." AP has more. Posted by Joshua Claybourn at November 11, 2005 08:28 AM CommentsGraham's comment would be a lot more plausible if we believed that all the Gitmo prisoners are really terrorists or al-Qaeda members. More likely, most of them are just captured soldiers from the Afghan army, or innocents in the wrong place at the wrong time. What the hell, just piss on their Koran. Posted by: wahoofive at November 11, 2005 12:04 PM | permalink Post a comment |
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