{"id":4504,"date":"2008-06-12T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/12\/a-victory-for-the-humanity-and-civilization-of-america\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T16:00:36","slug":"a-victory-for-the-humanity-and-civilization-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":"A victory for the humanity and civilization of America."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Scotus-Guantanamo.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\" _fcksavedurl=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Scotus-Guantanamo.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">Guantanamo detainees can challenge their detention in civilian courts.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/s\/supreme_court\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" _fcksavedurl=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/s\/supreme_court\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about the U.S. Supreme Court.\">Supreme Court<\/a> ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/national\/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions\/guantanamobaynavalbasecuba\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" _fcksavedurl=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/national\/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions\/guantanamobaynavalbasecuba\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" title=\"More news and information about Guant\u00e1namo.\">Guantanamo Bay<\/a> have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.In its third rebuke of the Bush administration&#8217;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&#8217;s liberal justices were in the majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the Constitution, but that the system the administration has put in place to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>The administration had argued first that the detainees have no rights. But it also contended that the classification and review process was a sufficient substitute for the civilian court hearings that the detainees seek.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s about damn time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo detainees can challenge their detention in civilian courts. The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.In its third rebuke of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}