Supreme Court decides bush is dictator

By allowing the right-wing whackos alito and roberts onto the supreme court, the Congress of the Untied States has put the end to America.

America has become a shooting star across the sky of history, blazing its way to the obscurity of dusty history books. The dream is ended, the promise gone, never to be reborne in our lifetime.

That dream was never real, but an ideal that the United States at least made some gestures to. But when was the last time you’ve seen the American Empire even make a pretense to a fair and equitable world order, or even a domestic order?

The killing and carnage in the American occupations of both Afghanistan and Iraq continue unabated, even in the face of the repudiation of those policies by the American people in the 2006 elections.

And now...

Supreme court won't decide Guantanamo appeals
4/2/07
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/pl_nm/guantanamo_prisoners_court_dc_1


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A closely divided Supreme Court said on Monday it would not decide whether Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their confinement before U.S. federal judges, avoiding a test of President George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.

Over the dissent of three justices, the nation's high court said it would not rule on the constitutionality of part of an anti-terrorism law that Bush pushed through the U.S. Congress last year that takes away the right of the prisoners to get judicial review of their detention.

(update 11:15 am)
Top court won't decide Guantanamo prisoner appeal
By James Vicini
4/2/07
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070402/pl_nm/guantanamo_prisoners_court_dc_2

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A closely divided Supreme Court said on Monday it would not decide whether Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their confinement before U.S. federal judges, avoiding a test of President George W. Bush's powers in the war on terrorism.

Over the strongly worded dissent of three justices, the high court said it would not rule on the constitutionality of part of an anti-terrorism law that Bush pushed through the U.S. Congress last year that takes away the right of the prisoners to get judicial review of their detention.

The justices declined to hear two appeals by prisoners seeking to overturn a lower court ruling in February. The lower court decision said lawsuits challenging the prisoners' detentions must be dismissed.

The Supreme Court in 2004 and 2006 rejected the Bush administration's position on Guantanamo prisoners.

There currently are about 385 detainees at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The first prisoners arrived more than five years ago after the United States launched its war on terrorism in response to the September 11 attacks.

The high court acted shortly after a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo convicted Australian al Qaeda trainee David Hicks of providing material support for terrorism, the first conviction there.

The indefinite detention and allegations of prisoner mistreatment at Guantanamo, which the U.S. military denies, have tarnished the United States' image abroad and a chorus of allies have urged Bush to shut down the camp for foreign terrorism suspects.

Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented. "I believe these questions deserve this court's immediate attention," Breyer wrote.

Justice John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy issued a separate statement saying rejection of the appeals "does not constitute any opinion on the merits" of the dispute. They said the prisoners can bring appeals to the Supreme Court later if the administration unreasonably delays their proceedings.

Attorneys for the prisoners had said the ruling by a U.S. appeals court upholding the law conflicted with decisions by the Supreme Court in 2004 and 2006 that said the detainees could get a hearing before a federal judge.

They said the cases involved a "watershed challenge" to Bush's authority.