Federal Judge: Bush's Law Denying Legal Rights to 12 Million LEGAL Immigrants Is UNCONSTITUTIONAL

[kpete]

Federal judge issues split decision on new Military Commissions Act
By David G. Savage


WASHINGTON — In the first legal decision on a federal law that denies access to U.S. courts to detainees in the war on terrorism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could not sue for freedom.

But, in a split decision, U.S. District Judge James Robertson also ruled that the law's denial of that right to the more than 12 million legal immigrants living in the United States was unconstitutional.

The first part of the ruling affirmed what Congress intended when it passed the Military Commissions Act in October. The decision came in the case of Salim Hamdan, the onetime driver to Osama bin Laden, who won what appeared to be a landmark victory in the Supreme Court in June.

Taking up Hamdan's lawsuit, the high court's justices said President Bush had overstepped his power when he created a system of military tribunals for foreign-born alleged terrorists.

more at:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003476629_detainees14.html

[ThomCat]

1. So, we can round up any non-citizen, anywhere in the world

on any trumped up charges and imprison them and torture them indefinitely without charges or trial, and this is perfectly legal?

I thougth the Supreme court had already stepped on that. I guess I was wrong... x(

I'm happy that part of the law was overturned, but the rest has to go too.