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novapsycheSupreme Court Blocks Trials at Guantánamo
Oh, and I love this: "Justice Thomas took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench, the first time he has done so in his 15 years on the court."
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 American military law and the Geneva Convention.
In a 5-to-3 ruling, the justices also rejected an effort by Congress to strip the court of jurisdiction over habeas corpus appeals by detainees at the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
And the court found that the plaintiff in the case, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, could not be tried on the conspiracy charge lodged against him because international military law requires that prosecutions focus on specific acts, not broad conspiracy charges.
Oh, and I love this: "Justice Thomas took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench, the first time he has done so in his 15 years on the court."