The Supreme Court ruling on BOUMEDIENE v. BUSH basically nullifies legislation passed by Congress and signed by Bush in October 2006 for Guantánamo detainees. There were 11 Democratic Senators and about 32 Democratic members of the House who voted in favor of the legislation. The legislation gave detainees access to be heard through modification to the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Take note, you may not hear this from the experts, but that all this has accomplished is that in the future captured military terrorist combatants will not be housed in a manner where they will gain access to American courts, they will be turned over to our allies. They will be subject to treatment and the laws of those countries. If Democrats want to create new legislation that will give unreasonable rights to captured military combatants we may end up attempting to execute a war in an impossible set of circumstances.
I agree with Scalia's dissenting opinion, this is not good for America.
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