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Scott Pullins: United States Supreme Court Stands Up for the Rule of Law

By The Pullins Group LLC

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The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detention at the US military base in civilian courts, dealing a stiff rebuke to the Bush administration.

"The laws and constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times," the court said in its historic ruling, for the third time in four years striking down the government's case for trying "war on terror" suspects in military tribunals.

"Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law," the court added, ruling that prisoners in the remote US jail in southern Cuba "have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus."

By a vote of five to four, the court found that even if the base was officially on Cuban territory, it was in fact operating as if it were on American soil.

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True conservatives believe foremost in the rule of law.  Today, our highest court once again illustrated it in action.  Well done.

Scott A. Pullins, Esq.
Publisher,
The Pullins Report

Full post as published by The Pullins Report on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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