Bush Whacked

This time by the Supremes, sans Chief Justice Roberts (JR recused himself, having voted against Hamdan's appeal  previously as an appeals court judge). Scalia, Thomas, and Alito, predictably, dissented; no doubt Roberts would have as well, had he not disqualified himself.

What kind of tantrum will the boy king throw this time? Will he call for cyanide in Justice Stevens' creme brulee, or will he let his nutjob surrogates do it for him?

Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo War Crimes Trials

The Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that the commissions are unconstitutional.

In a 5-3 decision, the court said the trials were not authorized under U.S. law or the Geneva Conventions. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion in the case, called Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recused himself from the case.

The ruling, which overturned a federal appeals court decision in which Roberts had participated, represented a defeat for President Bush, who had ordered military trials for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. About 450 detainees captured in the war on terrorism are currently held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

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