NationStates Jolt Archive

A sign of things to come?

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a man held until recently as an enemy combatant without traditional legal rights, in effect sidestepping a challenge to Bush administration wartime detention powers.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190304,00.html

The decision of the court was 6-3 in rejecting the appeal. One short of the 4 needed for the Supereme Court to hear the case.

What are your thoughts.

We'll see. This is after all, just one case.

The Court, as if has done throughout its existence, sidestepped a case instead of taking it on. The administration gave them an out when they pulled the switcheroo on Padilla last year (for which the 4th Circuit rightly blasted them), and the Court took it.

Land of the "free."

Courts sidestep so much, you might as well put some music on and put it in context.

The US is once again making good progress in getting rid of civil rights and such :rolleyes: