SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus

beebee and other readers sent word that the US Supreme Court has, by a 5 to 4 majority, ruled that the Constitution applies at Guantanamo. Accused terrorists can now go to federal court to challenge their continued detention (the right to habeas corpus), meaning that civil judges will now have the power to check the government's designation of Gitmo detainees as enemy combatants. This should remedy one of the major issues Human Rights activists have with the detention center. However, Gitmo is unlikely to close any time soon. The NYTimes reporting on the SCOTUS decision goes into more detail on the vigor of the minority opinion. McClatchy reports the outrage the decision has caused on the right, with one senator calling for a Constitutional amendment "to blunt the effect of this decision."

do a reverse mariel boatlift

[circletimessquare]

cuba dumped some of its prisoners on the usa during the mariel boatlift in the early 1980s (not all of the refugees were prisoners)

simply cede guantanamo bay back to cuba. "forget" to empty guantanamo bay out first. voila, new, "friendly" landlords

Re:About time...

[gregbot9000]

woo-hoo I bet those detainees are going to party like it's 1679.

Re:Sudden?

[gregbot9000]

woo-hoo, Those detainees are going to be partying like it's 1679.

Re:stupid, confusing war on terror...

[rantingkitten]

The war will be over when terror's governing body signs a formal surrender, or when we have crippled terror's troop count or logistical train to the point where terror cannot go on fighting. Don't you know anything about how this stuff works? I swear.

Re:Sudden?

[kalirion]

The US has become the monster in the night that people fear.

We are Legend.

Re:Sudden?

[WombatDeath]

Very informative. I can't mod you any higher so I'm just going to, ermmm, waste a few seconds of your time and a few bytes of your bandwidth instead.

Ummm. Sorry.

Re:Sudden?

[Darby]

Well, it couldn't have hurt the food, unless the Italians tried to come up with haggis parmegioano.

You're asserting that that would be *worse* than haggis already is?