Supreme Court to end term with two rulings

[Judi Lynn]

Supreme Court to end term with two rulings
10 minutes ago

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At the end of Wednesday's session, Chief Justice John Roberts announced that the high court would finish its work on Thursday.

In the two remaining cases, the justices will decide:

_Whether President Bush overstepped his authority with military war-crimes trials for foreigners held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

_Whether to strike down Arizona's insanity defense law, in an appeal brought on behalf of a schizophrenic teenager who killed a police officer.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060629/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_final_day

[Mythsaje]

1. Care to place a bet on which way they'll come down?

I wouldn't, but I don't gamble.

Not that it's really a gamble, but it's the principle of the thing.

[Syrinx]

3. Both will be 5-4

Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Kennedy on the side of fascism.

[liberal N proud]

5. They will let bu$h off the hook and fry the teenager

This is America and we are at WAR! We can't question the bu$h and those damn teenagers just need to be locked up or executed, they are all bad!


:sarcasm:

[sandnsea]

2. I wanna play SCOTUS

Did Bush overstep his authority? Oh hell no, how could anyone have ever thought such a thing?

Stike down insanity defense law? Most certainly. Dumb law to begin with. Kill them all and let gawd sort 'em out.

Did I win? Did I win?

[billyoc]

4. Wow! Roll that up into a "quatrain",

and you could be on the Discovery Channel. :)

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Only if you write it

in archaic French.

[ixion]

6. ding ding ding ding

we have a winn-ah!

[Igel]

10. Nope.

I'm not a lawyer, but my quick reading of the precis for each case is that * overstepped his authority, and that the insanity law stands.

New procedures (or whatever) for Hamdan; and the kid received due process.

[sandnsea]

11. I heard!!

That's great news on the Guantanamo case.

I really don't know about the other one, I was actually just being flip there. I think the defense was hoping the insanity law would be found unconstitutional - the law thrown out. I took it to the extreme - no insanity defense at all which I knew wouldn't happen. As to the facts of the case, etc., I've honestly got no clue and I'm too sick today to dig into the case to form an opinion.

[HuffleClaw]

7. i'll be stunned if they don't rule for bush

its WHY he installed his new puppets afterall.

[Igel]

9. Opinons are up.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05slipopinion.html