... who thinks the Bush Administration (which represents the United States of America to the world, by the way) has been just so generous in their treatment of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called “the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.”
There are still a few somewhat more rational homo sapiens on the court who decided
that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
Will this attempt to uphold a little, but quite important, piece of the constitution be a hit or the third strike?
The court has ruled twice previously that people held at Guantanamo without charges can go into civilian courts to ask that the government justify their continued detention. Each time, the administration and Congress, then controlled by Republicans, changed the law to try to close the courthouse doors to the detainees.
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