Bush Overstepped his Authority -- GASP!

According to The Washington Post, the Supreme Court struck back at the power hungry, abusive Bush administration today.

The Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that the commissions violate U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of war prisoners.

It's a "stunning rebuke."

You can tell that the Left is loving this.

Visions of impeachment are dancing in their heads.

In a 5-3 decision, the court said the trials were not authorized by any act of Congress and that their structure and procedures violate the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949.

(Chief Justice John Roberts recused himself because he had served on the appeals court that had previously heard the case.)

...The case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a 36-year-old Yemeni with links to al-Qaeda, was considered a key test of the judiciary's power during wartime and carried the potential to make a lasting impact on American law. It challenged the very legality of the military commissions established by President Bush to try terrorism suspects.

...The ruling does not mean that the United States must close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility or free any of its detainees, including Hamdan.

That's important. This ruling doesn't mean that Gitmo is being shut down or the detainees are being released.

The ruling does indicate that the Supreme Court DOES NOT have a conservative, constructionist majority.
Reuters referred to the decision as a "stinging blow" for Bush.
The Associated Press considers it to be a "strong rebuke" directed at the administration, and a "broad defeat for the government."

The BBC thinks of the ruling as a "major blow" to Bush.

According to The Chicago Tribune, it's a "broad strike back at the powers asserted by the president since the 9/11 attacks."
Amnesty International calls it a "victory for the rule of law and human rights."

Etc., etc., etc.

I don't think libs have been this excited about a Supreme Court decision since Roe v. Wade.

It's strange to me that they are drooling over a victory for terrorists. Well actually, it's not strange.

It's typical for them to be rooting against the Bush administration's efforts to combat terrorism and protect Americans.

They are sticking to their usual procedures of branding Bush as the true enemy and, in effect, siding with the terrorists.

I agree with this comment by Ret. Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales. He believes that "every government branch needs to be on the same page as to how to deal with terror suspects in the United States."

Scales said:

"The American people and the Supreme Court and the rest of people in the enlightened world ... have to decide for themselves, are we in a state of war or are we not in a state of war? The enemy is using our confusion about the conditions in the world today to their advantage and ultimately, we're going to end up with innocent dead in Europe, the United States and elsewhere in the world."

He's right.

But hey, the only thing that really matters to the libs is that a Supreme Court ruling went against the Bush administration. Forget how it impacts the War on the Terror.

It's the political fall-out that counts to the libs. They care about how much damage they can do to Bush and the Republicans, not the safety of INNOCENT men, women, and children.




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Read Mark Levin's take on the ruling, "The Outrage of Hamdan."