Bush Admin. Lawyer Says Supreme Court Term Was Bad for Conservatives

[Blackaxe]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Solicitor General Theodore Olson used his final day as the Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer to lament the court's decision siding with foreign terrorism suspects over the president.

He said Friday that the court term that ended last week held no good news for conservatives, especially the ruling that opened American courts to "enemy combatants" being held at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"U.S. courts ... have never been extended so far," Olson told members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.

Olson, whose wife died in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon during the Sept. 11 attacks, had argued before the justices that the president needed broad powers to hold and interrogate foreigners who might pose future threats without giving them access to courts.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBVRCAUGWD.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. *koff* BULLSHIT *koff*

'Scuse me.

[ixion]

2. sounds like another neocon guilty of war crimes

the lot of them belongs in the Hague, IMO.

[amber dog democrat]

3. What a MORAN

like I feel sorry for them?

[Bandit]

4. I thought it was about American Enemy combatants not foreigners

Maybe it effected all prisoners but I was pretty sure the case was about American citizens losing their right to council and speedy trial. About Due Process and all things American.

[Gothmog]

5. Olson lied to the Supreme Court

I am so glad that he is leaving the post of solicitor general.

[Book Lover]

6. "U.S. courts ... have never been extended so far,"

Yet the finger of US unilateralism, that's OK to extend over the globe, right, Teddy baby? What's wrong, couldn't manage to get even this lapdog Congress to approve an actual declaration of war?

[DivinBreuvage]

7. So now even Antonin and Clarence hate America.

Just like Bolsheviks or French Revolutionaries, the Neocons end up eating their own, though all of their wits put together could not equal a single Bukharin or a Robespierre.

How very very tragic.

It means little now, but one day they will start shucking themselves off to the KZ and Madame Guillotine along with the rest of us.

[NeoConsSuck]

8. Bad for conservatives...?

Hey, without them you and the chimp would be visiting the white house as tourists.

[MasonJar]

9. They let the big loser off the hook. Did these nitwits ever consider

that what they are doing is illegal (or should be.)

[Lugnut]

10. Bullshit Ted!

Now go fill your coffers and don't let the door hit yer ass on the way out you despicable lying slimebucket.

[TahitiNut]

11. Ted Olson WWDITPTCITP

They might as well abbreviate it so it fits on the black heart medallion. :puke:

[drfemoe]

12. According to NPR

news this morning . if there are no charges against the prisoners (edit: "enemy combatants"), they will be repatriated. They have 10 days to notify the prisoners of their rights. The trials have to be in DC.

I imagine a lot of them will be going home rather than court. Remember Yee et al. Detained with no charges? I'm waiting to see how many actually remain once charges have to be produced.

[dbt]

13. Olson. GET OVER IT.

Move on for the good of the country, Sore Loser Man.

:evilgrin:
dbt

PS: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

[truthisfreedom]

14. they try to hide the fact that they HATE AMERICA'S FREEDOM. these people

are the freedom haters, the ones that believe they should be able to do, arbitrarily, whatever they want to whomever they want, exactly like the terra-ists.

American Justice rises above that. it's not a little plaything for georgie. too bad for these whiners looking for shortcuts. shortcuts are the cheater's way, but we all know that bush and cheney and all of their cronies have been cheating all of their lives and fully believed they could get away with it in office too. why do you think you hear cheney saying, brazenly in front of 100 senators, "go f*** yourself" to someone he's already screwed? and why is it reported that bush said "f*** 'em all" and laughed at a later cabinet meeting? because that's the way they think, and have always thought. they don't give a rat's ass about people or justice. they just want their little America to play with, to empty the coffers into their pockets and their friends' pockets while they have control, and leave the place an utter shambles so nobody can figure out how to pin it on them later. they're like the mafia that finally got the keys to the corner store, are stealing the inventory and taking all the cash from the drawer, and not paying any rent until the place, fully ravaged, is shut down once and for all. it's all about the military industrial complex and energy companies, and it always has been for the bushes, all the way back. and to hell with people. anywhere. they're tools, to be used. sponges from which power and money are to be wringed.