The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Thursday, June 29, 2006  

POLITICAL NOTES
With Media Miscellany
June 29, 2006

No Go Gitmo
Just out: "Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo War Crimes Trials," by the Washington Post's William Branigin:

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 are unconstitutional.

The vote was 5-3, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recusing himself. Pretty easy bet who the three dissenters were, don't you think?

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