US supreme court reverses its own chief justice, administration

maybe it will take a little heat off NYT et al as well.

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They shouldn’t have ruled the way they did. This is not a bunch of pussycats we’re talking about here... This is Osama bin Laden’s driver.

A DRIVER OH NOES

wait wait wait - is there some court higher than the Supreme Court I don't know about? Is there some law of the land that the SC doesn't have jurisdiction over? wtf is he referring to here? fuckin Lott, I hate that asshole.

twunts

Look for Justice Sunday IV: Vengeance is Mine Sayeth Delay.

Whitman, speaking at the Pentagon, said: "Many of them have vowed to go back to the battlefield if they were released. And it serves as a place where we're able to learn about terrorist networks, their operations, their activities. It enables us to thwart future attacks."

ASSHOLE, we don't release folks who have actually been convicted. way to completely bullshit the issue.

...The Court thus properly rejected Justice Thomas’s extraordinary idea that the “structural advantages attendant to the Executive Branch” in war-time—aspects of executive power that make that branch the “most dangerous” to individual liberty today—merit a hands-off approach by the courts. (Ironically, Justice Thomas refers to Justice Stevens’ “unfamiliarity with the realities of warfare”; but Stevens served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. Thomas’s official bio, by contrast, contains no experience of military service....

that's been the thing. the only way they can possibly get around due process is to paint these guys are the end-all/be-all of horror "america's never faced so great a threat not even global thermal nuclear war or a war where half the citizens are actively trying to shoot the other half or a war taking on the greatest military force ever" and drum enough so much fear that it short-circuits people away from wondering about the 80-odd% of the guys in there who just got grabbed off the street by pakistani/afghani/northern alliance bounty hunters 4 years ago.

so they have to cover up any possibility of their mistake being revealed by completely shearing away from any reality of what's actually going on, i.e. repeatedly stamping their feets like a 5 year old demanding that any trial whatsoever is akin to turning these evildoers loose into our gated communities and enabling them to actively date, corrupt, and/or sodomize the upstanding virginial white daughters of god-fearing americans.

it's the same thing about the NSA dealie; deliberately misrepresenting the fact that folks were pissed off about them completely blowing out any law or judicial oversight to wiretap the Kerry campaign, senate democrats, NYT/WaPo reporters, etc.

Akin to the folks who stake their life and their sanity on the fact that each & every single word in every book of the Bible ever printed/written in the last 3000 years has to be God's Literal Truth, or It's All Over, Man.

Any nuance, any complication, any possible interpretation or differece in opinion, and they percieve their entire authoritarian structure as 2 microseconds from obliteration. And so that must never happen, therefore anyone who dares disagree with Dear Unitary Executive is a evil traitor who must be immediately put to death etc etc etc.

You get the idea.