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The Supreme Court today slapped the president's hand and told him not to make up the laws as he goes along. In essence his attempt to try military/political detainees with tribunals violates not just our laws but the Geneva Convention. 9/11 and the flurry of hastily cobbled laws that resulted did not "hand the president a blank check", and thus the current treatment of the prisoners rights has been a violation of basic laws.

That's it in a nutshell.

Of course the justices also pretty much summarily dismissed the attempt to strip them of their position of judgement on the topic as well. Congress needed to get a fucking grip before trying to push that one through - the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court. It rules on all issues, not just the ones that congress doesn't want examined (ignore the man behind the curtain).

Mr. Stamp said the court had ignored its own precedents justifying the use of tribunals instead of courts martial, and was substituting its own judgment for the president's in his role of commander in chief. "For the court to step into the war-making arena, where it has no expertise, is inappropriate," he said.

Ok, Mr. Stamp - whoever he is - is a fucking retard. A prisoner, by definition is no longer IN a war-making arena. Otherwise he wouldn't be a fucking prisoner. Once someone moves from combatant to prisoner the laws - both ours and the Geneva Convention are patently clear on the issue. Idiot. And in my opinion (and I'd bet anyone else in the world) had to put money on the better judgement of nine supreme court justices versus our current president I sure as shit know who would win.

I find it insulting that the dictatorial bent has been justified as a "return to the original intent of presidential authority". Bullshit. It's just a fucking unrestrained power grab by a president backed by a republican majority under the guise of a self-inflicted, revenge-oriented war.

Supreme court 1: Clown 0.