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Bush disagrees with court's Guantanamo ruling


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ROME - President Bush on Thursday strongly disagreed with a Supreme Court ruling that clears foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts. Bush suggested new legislation may now be needed to keep the American people safe.

"We'll abide by the court's decision," Bush said during a news conference in Rome. "That doesn't mean I have to agree with it." The court's decision was sure to be popular in Europe, where many leaders have called for the closing of of Guantanamo.

In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court's liberal justices were in the majority.

"It was a deeply divided court, and I strongly agree with those who dissented," Bush said. "And that dissent was based upon their serious concerns about U.S. national security."
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6 responses // Bush disagrees with court's Guantanamo ruling

  • I cant believe the supreme cort let these terrorists have the same rights as americans.It is a sad day to be an american, if that means any thing these days
    jeromecon
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  • I think the dissenting judgments clearly show how the Republican Justices simply voted on party lines.
    UWAZell
  • The liberal judges plus Anthony Kennedy (concidered a moderate judge) are somehow, ironically the supreme court's greatest protectors of the Constitution. The dissenting votes are from so called "conservative" judges. These are the same judges that obscured the legitimacy of the 2000 election by stopping the Florida recount. Which of course, there was NO Constitutional provision for. Once again the "conservative" judges on the supreme court have NO constitutional leg to stand on. Having always thought of myself as being a Constitutional conservative, does that now make me a "liberal".
    GavinTheMother
  • Hey, guys let's think about this for just one minute. Some of those people are American citizens. In fact if Bush were to decide that you are an enemy combatant you could be the one locked up there without habeas corpus. Why not give them their day in court? Because many of them are there because we offered a five thousand dollar bounty for them. People turned in their own brothers in some cases, just to get that money. They had done nothing except be handy to turn in for a bounty.
    Marilynn_Murray

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