two things of beauty....
Jun. 12th, 2008 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanOne small step back to the nation I was born to... SCOTUS: Guantanamo Detainees Have Habeas Rights (via dailykos)
In a 5-4 decision today written by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court has ruled that foreign nationals detained at Guantánamo Bay retain the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus, and that such rights were not validly stripped by Congress in passing the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as the procedures in provided did not constitute an adequate and effective substitute for habeas corpus and were therefore unconstitutional.
A SCOTUS shame that it was as close as 5-4.
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In the window of my office, there's a crystal sun-catcher a friend gave me years ago. I hung it there when I moved in, without thinking much about the placement. Until this morning when, by a trick of time, light, and whatever, the light hit the crystal just-so and splayed a rainbow across my keyboard.
Typing in colors, indeed. Good thing I'm not prone to psychedelic flashbacks...
In a 5-4 decision today written by Justice Kennedy, the Supreme Court has ruled that foreign nationals detained at Guantánamo Bay retain the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus, and that such rights were not validly stripped by Congress in passing the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, as the procedures in provided did not constitute an adequate and effective substitute for habeas corpus and were therefore unconstitutional.
A SCOTUS shame that it was as close as 5-4.
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In the window of my office, there's a crystal sun-catcher a friend gave me years ago. I hung it there when I moved in, without thinking much about the placement. Until this morning when, by a trick of time, light, and whatever, the light hit the crystal just-so and splayed a rainbow across my keyboard.
Typing in colors, indeed. Good thing I'm not prone to psychedelic flashbacks...
