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2005-08-09 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I seriously doubt the supremes would take this case, with or without Roberts.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-09 01:00|| 2005-08-09 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not so sure about that. The last opinion of the DC Cir. in Hamdan's case finished with a rather glib assumption that the president was a "competnent authority" under the relevant statute and a 2/1 split on whether Article 3 of the latest Geneva Convention applies to al Qaeda. Those are *exactly* the sorts of questions the Supreme Court exists to clarify.

Posted by AzCat 2005-08-09 02:27|| 2005-08-09 02:27|| Front Page Top

#3 The last Geneva convention the US adopted was right after WW2 I thought AzCat? Lots of those "conventions" that the EU and left get on about we never signed. So they don't apply, Doesn't stop the TRANZIs from getting a frothed up about it.

I don't think this guy has a rats chance in hell of getting the SCOTUS to take up his case, but we will see.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-08-09 06:14|| 2005-08-09 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Ummmm....no. I don't believe that dirtbag Yemenis in Cuba qualify for US constitutional protections.

But thanks for playing.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-08-09 10:47|| 2005-08-09 10:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Can anyone remember a case where a judge promoted to the USSC got to issue an opinion on the same case he had previously faced at the circuit level? Because the main argument in front of the Supremes would be that the lower court erred in it's ruling. I would think the Dems would be grabbing this story and running.

Posted by john">john 2005-08-09 15:23|| 2005-08-09 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The supremes seldom take up a case decided on appeal from the 3rd district.

Should they run to the loony side, and Roberts sits on the court, he would well have to be recused from the case.

Posted by Captain America 2005-08-09 16:59|| 2005-08-09 16:59|| Front Page Top

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