Supreme Court ruling blocks Guantanamo trials
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Telegraph
The US Supreme Court has found that President George W Bush exceeded his authority by ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees.
(Bloomberg)“In undertaking to try Hamdan and subject him to criminal punishment, the executive is bound to comply with the rule of law that prevails in this jurisdiction,’ Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the court.
In this case it is the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The voting breaks down like you think: Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer for the majority; Scalia, Thomas, and Alito dissenting. Roberts abstains being that he heard the as an appellate Judge.
