Checks and balances clinging to life... Military war crimes trials...? NO...!

[UPDATE AND BUMP]

(doin' a lot o'bumpin' today...!)

an extremely welcome dollop of sanity is splashed into the bushco mental institution... let's hope the inmates patients don't treat it as yet another "signing statement"-type opportunity...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Bush overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. The ruling, a rebuke to the administration and its aggressive anti-terror policies, was written by Justice John Paul Stevens, who said the proposed trials were illegal under U.S. law and international Geneva conventions.

FINALLY, a belated demo that checks and balances are still alive... comatose and nearly brain-dead, but, yes, still alive...

[UPDATE]

glenn greenwald weighs in with the same concern i voiced above...

My quick take is that it's certainly an important symbolic victory, but this administration's contempt for the law, the constitution, and the balance/separation of powers that our system rests on isn't going to be very affected by what 5 people in black robes say. They've ignored Congress and they'll ignore the Court too, leaving our mainstream media with more time to deal with the impending threat of blogofascism.

(thanks to atrios...)

and, while the media is busily bashing the blogosphere, the administration will be busy behind the scenes plotting how to shut the blogosphere down... don't doubt it for a moment...

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