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Wednesday, 13 December 2006

Hamdan II- All three branches agree on Gitmo
"Uncle Jimbo" Hanson

A much needed win if we want to act seriously in opposing terror anywhere. There was much jubilation when the Supremes ruled in Hamdan, the problem was too many people failed to read the ruling. They didn't rule against keeping bad guys at Gitmo without a right to a day in US court. They said the current law doesn't support this explicitly, and made it clear that Congress needed to decide if there should be US law to support this action. For once Congress acted decisively and the Military Commissions Act was passed, perhaps the last tool on terror we will see from them for a while.

To make it even more proper, the same judge who had initially ruled for Hamdan that such detentions were illegal was whipping a 180. ...

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Dafydd has more here, as does Ed Morrissey here.

Posted by Bill Faith on December 13, 2006 at 09:22 PM in Islamism Delenda Est, Judicial Wisdom | Permalink

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