Appeals Court Rule Detainees Can't Use U.S. Courts

    Guantanamo Bay detainees can't challenge their imprisonment in the U.S. courts, so says a federal appeals court. That will keep one of Bush's provisions intact with his anti-terrorism plan.

   AP

Barring detainees from the U.S. court system was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a system to prosecute terrorism suspects.

Civil libertarians and leading Democrats decried the law as unconstitutional and a violation of American values. The law allows the government to indefinitely detain foreigners who have been designed as "enemy combatants" and authorizes the CIA to use aggressive but undefined interrogation tactics.

But the most criticized provision of the law was the one stripping U.S. courts of the authority to hear arguments from detainees who said they were being held illegally.

   Maybe we need to throw these bum judges out into the street along with the Bush Crime Family. I'm sure that there is a Salvation Army that would let them sleep there at night, if they can sleep with a dirty conscience.

                              IMPEACH! INDICT! IMPRISON!

 

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