Prediction: Bush & Congress Will Override the Supreme Court's Gitmo Decision (updated)

» BUSH ON HAMDAN RULING from Michelle Malkin
Here's the video. The ACLU is popping the champagne corks. But Andrew Cochran makes a prediction: The decision is actually a huge political gift to President Bush, and the detainees will not be released that easily. The President and GOP... [Read More]

» Video: Bush on Hamdan from Hot Air
“We will conform to the Supreme Court.” ... [Read More]

» The Court decides on Hamdan from The Glittering Eye
The Supreme Court has decided against the Bush Administration’s position on Hamdan: The Supreme Court today delivered a sweeping rebuke to the Bush administration, ruling that the military tribunals it created to try terror suspects violate both ... [Read More]

» Supreme Court Rules Against Military Tribunals; Geneva Applies to Al Qaeda (Updated) from Outside The Beltway | OTB
The Supreme Court ruled that Ahmed Salim Hamdan was being improperly held at Guantanamo Bay and apparently held that President Bush does not have the power to try those he deems “enemy combatants” in military tribunals. The U.S. Supreme Cou... [Read More]

» Busy day for Supreme Court from Of Arms and the Law
The Supremes customarily decide the easy cases first and save the tough ones for last. (That's why I was amused when, early in the term, the newspapers were saying that the Roberts Court must be stressing collegiality because it was... [Read More]

» Decline and Fall? from protein wisdom

In a 5-3 ruling -- which featured 3 separate dissenting opinions (Alito, Scalia, and Thomas, with Chief Justice Roberts having recused himself) --SCOTUS ruled that military tribunals overstep Executive authority, a ruling that co...

» SCOTUS Hands Terrorists Geneva Convention Protections from Suitably Flip
The Supreme Court ruled on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld today, handing down a 5-3 decision that extends prisoner-of-war privileges to terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Most notably, the decision holds that it was improper of the Bush administration to subject the [Read More]

» Supreme Court Tosses Tribunals from The American Mind
The Supreme Court issued their Hamdan ruling and it's a loss for the President and his military tribunals. The most... [Read More]

» Reader Tips from small dead animals
It's just a matter of time; Security sources have disclosed that the belief amongst most intelligence agencies is that a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) attack, using a so-called dirty bomb, is now inevitable. Today, Palestinian te... [Read More]

» When you are handed a lemon, make lemonade from Irish Pennants
The Supreme Court's 5-3 decision in the Hamdan case is a might sour lemon for the Bush administration, and for America. It's one weird opinion, says David Frum. Nancy Pelosi, unsurprisingly, thinks the decision is swell: "Today's Supreme Court decision... [Read More]

» The SCOTUS Decision On Gitmo Detainees from Daily Pundit
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» The political ramifications of the Hamdan decision from Betsy's Page
And that will all work, contrary to how the media sees this situation now, to the GOP's advantage. The Republicans benefit when the focus comes back to national security and the war in Iraq. The Democrats want to keep the focus on domestic issues, but ... [Read More]

» Declare Supreme Court Justices Enemy Combatants from Jon Swift
Although I have not actually read the entire Constitution, I believe that in the Article that gives the President the power to designate enemy combatants there is nothing that explicitly protects members of the Supreme Court from being declared enemy c... [Read More]

» SCOTUS to Bush: NO WAI from Wonkette
More Koizumi/Bush/Elvis funnies — though Zengerle fails to point out that the Japanese Prime Minister looks remarkably like Jim Jarmusch. Or is that just us? [The Plank] There’s some sort of fight going on over in liberal blog-land, involvi... [Read More]

» A good dissent from Don Surber
UPDATE: Andrew Cochran predicts Bush & Congress Will Override the Supreme Court's Gitmo Decision. ... Sounds like a good backup plan to me. [Read More]

» Hamdan v. Rumsfeld a Gift for Bush and Co.? from The Art of the Blog
(Via Michelle Malkin and Instapundit) Andrew Cochran and the Counterterrorism Blog has this to say about today's Hamdan decision: The decision is actually a huge political gift to President Bush, and the detainees will not be released that easily. The ... [Read More]

» Supreme Court Rules Against Gitmo from Front Page
The New York Times is absolutely incapable of unbiased, factual news reporting. They could have simply reported the arguments and outcome of Hamden vs. Rumsfeld, the case to determine whether the Geneva Convention applies to terrorists being held at ... [Read More]

» Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo War Crimes Trials from The New Editor
The Washington Post's William Branigin reports: (emphasis added) The Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that the commissions violate U. [Read More]

» Supreme Court decision hamstrings the GWOT from Cake or Death
And it's gonna bring every civil rights attorney in the country to the captured terrorists in Guantanamo. And the ACLU chimes right in and says if how we were prosecuting them doesn't fly then the prison itself must be closed too. For a summary of ... [Read More]

» SCOTUS Undermines Troops, Gives GOP Big Gift from Gay Patriot
First… I’m going to ramble a bit. I’ve had a tiring company meeting in Florida and I haven’t been home in over a week. I would first say “Kudos” to Dan for ignoring the Log Cabin self-love fest with Arnold. LCR... [Read More]

» Welcome Back 9/10 from Flopping Aces
In the end, while I was mighty pissed when first reading this decision I think this isn’t such a defeat for Bush. All he has to do is go back to Congress and get them to approve of the tribunals. Thats it in a nutshell I believe. ... [Read More]

» Invasion from The Heretik
The attack was sudden. And complete. . . . the Supreme Court has struck at the core of his presidency and dismissed the notion that the president alone can determine how to defend the country. In rejecting Bush’s military tribunals for terroris... [Read More]

» Clipping Bush's wings from The Peking Duck
The blogosphere is ablaze with a dizzying array of posts on yesterday's Supreme Court decision requiring Bush to comply with the laws of war. Some say it may mean the end of our Golden Age of Torture. Others say the... [Read More]

» The Road From Hamden from Villainous Company
No matter what you think of Hamden, the GWOT, or the road to Guantanamo, the question in everyone's mind right now is, "Where do we go from here?". Predictably, the decision is being characterized in the media as an unqualified... [Read More]

» We Don’t Need No Stinking Jurisdiction from Freedom for Some
After yesterdays decision by the Supreme Court that blocks Guantanamo Bay detainees from being tried in military tribunals, many Democrats are cheering as many on the right stand perplexed to how the Supreme court could even hear this complaint, not to me [Read More]

» More on Hamdan from MilBlogs
Around the sphere two themes are rising to the fore out of Hamdan: (1) that the applicability of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is huge and (2) that Congress can fix the problem of the military commissions.I've discussed... [Read More]

» Busy day for Supreme Court from Of Arms and the Law
The Supremes customarily decide the easy cases first and save the tough ones for last. (That's why I was amused when, early in the term, the newspapers were saying that the Roberts Court must be stressing collegiality because it was... [Read More]