'Cause I've got a crush on Scalia
By Rob Tornoe
After yesterday's 5-4 ruling by the Supreme Court, are we only one justice away from a court sanctioned dictatorship?
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Dictatorship? The Supreme Court decision was a defeat for America. These are not american citizens, but even still, the combatants still receive a hearing, in which many have been released. This decision is blatant disregard for the US Constitution so that this "impartial" branch of government can have an impact in the ongoing politics of this issue.
Those Supreme Court Commies!
Let's see who appointed them:
John Roberts - Chief Justice, GWB (R)
John Stevens - Ford (R)
Antonin Scalia - Reagan (R)
Anthony Kennedy - Reagan (R)
David Souter - Bush Sr. (R)
Clarence Thomas - Bush Sr. (R)
Ruth Ginsberg - Clinton (D)
Stephen Breyer - Clinton (D)
Samuel Alito - GWB (R)
Nine Judges, seven appointed by Republican presidents, AND MCCAIN HAS A PROBLEM WITH THE WAY THEY VOTED?
DOESN'T THAT TELL YOU SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE HAMDLINGS OF THE GWB ADMINISTRATION?
To defend what was happening IS AN ENDORSEMENT of the GWB administration. Four more years, right McCain?
Does this guy want a socialist state?
Hail Chancellor McCain!
haha i love tornoe i think i only come to politicsnj.com for
his cartoons
Detainees
You're wrong on that Torch. Of the 270 detainees at Gitmo, only 16 have been charged with a crime. The others are held, some for over 6 years, without any charges against them. They are just held on suspicion. Does that kind of justice remind you of any other era in world history?
Re: torch
....the Constitution applies not just to US Citizens, but to all "persons".
And regardless of Scalia's
And regardless of Scalia's argument that it's not on foreign soil, we have numerous treaties with countries around the world that dictate how we treat prisoners. The Geneva convention comes to mind.
Regardless, we can exhale a sign of relief that, yet again, the court has slammed down the Bush and Cheney Co., as well as Congress for that matter.
Tornoe,
Roe v. Wade
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Abington v. Schempp
Engel v. Vitale
Stone v. Graham
We already have court sanctioned dictatorship, Dumbass.
Hey!!!!!!Mr. Democrat
NO IT DOESN’T ……………Of course you must be a product of this Great NJ school system MORON......
Mr. Democrat = Wrong
As someone who is about to graduate from the NJ school system in a week, I completely agree with MadMax.
Example:
During WWII when we captured enemy soldiers, did we give them all federal trials, lawyers, etc. No. Should we have? According to Mr. Democrat, yes.
Tornoe
seems to be posting on these himself
Vinny...
During WWII, the Japanese were beheading American prisoners. AFAIK, this practice has stopped. Back during WWII the U.S. interned thousands of Japanese just for being Japanese-Americans.
America and the Japanese have evolved and moved on to be more civilized.
What's the point?
Scalia is indeed a threat to democracy....
......the Bush administration has used 9-11 to terrorize Americans into allowing a quasi dictatorship.
Habeas Corpus is indeed the cornerstone of our freedom.
Some of you seem to be more "loyal" to Bushism than to the US Constitution.
Guantanamo is, in effect, US territory. We've held and controlled that property since the Spanish American war.
The Constitution applies to all humans on American turf. Period.
It's sad, and telling, that so many Americans believe the right wing/Fox News spin that we are somehow "coddling terrorists" when we insist on real evidence and real proof before we put people in prison. (let alone brutalize/ torture them)
This is one more reason to vote against McCain.
One more Scalia on the court and we can kiss our fundamental rights and freedoms goodbye.
Osama bin Laden, and his ilk, are indeed a crazed and dangerous threat to our nation and our freedom; but I dare say, he hasn't got the power to destroy our way of life.
Only we can do that to ourselves.
From Frederick Douglass
Mr Democrat = right
"No person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ..."
That's "person" not "citizen."
Try reading the document sometime.