Sunday, July 09, 2006

 

203 Days and Counting

Can you believe it? We've passed the 200 day mark, and still no action on impeachment.

I want to take this opportunity to move a reader's comment right up here to the first page. Yes, my friends, it's just too good to hide.

My most faithful commenter, the City Troll, wrote the following in reply to another commenter's thoughts on the recent US Supreme Court decision (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, available in PDF here) striking down Bush's attempt to use military commissions to try detainees.
The Supremes decision did NOT say that they had to be tried by a court of law, what it said was that the President didn't have the authority to make the decision on how they should be tried, they said that is the job of congress.

The question is will congress step up to the plate and create rules for trying combatents that were traditionaly defined as spies/terrorists under the Geneva conventions (those who engage in battle without a uniform). What the Supremes have done is added a clasification and it is now up to congress to define their treatment, but without that definition like it or not the President's wishes will stand.
It is heart warming to see that the Troll supports my position on the legal grounds for Impeachment. The President's wishes to conduct foreign surveillance as he is now doing would be legal except for the fact that Congress already stepped up to the plate and created rules for conducting foreign surveillance when it passed FISA.





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