Guantanamo Trials Appealed at High Court

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for an alleged al-Qaida member have filed an unusual appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the government's strategy in holding military trials for terror suspects in Cuba.

Earlier this month a federal judge blocked the first planned trial, and lawyers for the accused enemy combatant in that case are trying to bypass an appeals court and get the issue before the high court immediately.

The Bush administration has defended its plans for military commission trials, resurrected from World War II, at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson said the government must first determine that the suspects are not prisoners of war and entitled to more legal rights. He also ruled that the guidelines for the trials must be changed.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-scotus-guantanamo-trials,0,1114691.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[teryang]

1. US District Judge knows military/international law

The administration is trying to stop him at any cost.

This is an outrageous story. Our soldiers (and our citizens as well) may will pay for this administrations violations of international law for generations.

The compliance with international and military law is in our national security interest, not anyone else's. We are supposed to set the international standard. By abandoning it this administration endangers everyone.

Virtually all military jags, international law experts and most lawyers for that matter disagree with these absurd Gitmo and torture policies.

Yet, they are rarely seen or heard from in mainstream media.

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

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[Just Me]

3. If this goes all the way to SCOTUS,...

,...I just know that the day they finally render a decision will make my head explode no matter what the decision. Their opinions have become so nuanced and so damned windy that it's tough to make heads or tails outta' the buggars.