Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo military tribunals
By James Vicini
23 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a major blow for President George W. Bush's war on terrorism, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the military tribunal system set up to try Guantanamo prisoners violates the Geneva Conventions and U.S. military rules.
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That part of the decision was a stinging blow for the administration in a case brought by Hamdan, who was Osama bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. Hamdan, one of more than 400 foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was captured in November 2001.
At the White House, spokesman Tony Snow said, "We have no comment until we have read the decision but we will once we have read the decision."
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The opinion by Stevens was joined by the other liberal justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, and moderate-conservative Anthony Kennedy.
The conservatives -- Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito -- dissented.
The ruling involved eight of the nine court members. Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed by Bush, removed himself because he previously was on the U.S. appeals court panel that ruled for the Bush administration in Hamdan's case.
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