Supreme Court stands up and rebukes White House
ecthompsonmd
June 13, 2008
There is a ton that needs to be said about this decision. Instead of me wandering thru this decision, let’s see what Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer, has to say. From Greenwald: In a major rebuke to the Bush administration’s theories of presidential power — and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political class which has supported the Bush detention policies — the U.S. Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 decision (.pdf), declared Section 7 of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutional. The Court struck down that section of the MCA because it purported to abolish the writ of
