Comments on: Scalia Speaks Out On Detainee Rights

By: Church and State

Church and State — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:40:44 +0000

If Scalia Should Have to Recuse Himself, Then…
… Justice Ginsberg would have to recuse herself from the next abortion case. In the upcoming issue of Newsweek the question is raised on whether Justice Scalia should recuse himself from the upcoming case

By: kerwin_brown

kerwin_brown — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:10:38 +0000

I think someone is being foolish. We knew that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was pro choice before she sat on the bench and I have not seen her recuse herself from one case because of it yet. The question is do admit the truth that the high Justices are biased or do we continue to pretend they are not while referring to them as liberal, moderate, and conservative. If we admit the truth then it is only for political reasons that the left wants Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself while claiming that they want the federal courts to be independent from politics. They obviously speak out of both sides of their face.

By: The Rolling Barrage

The Rolling Barrage — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:07:38 +0000

Scalia Makes Sense and That Causes Problems?
Antonin Scalia is the sharpest intellect on the Supreme Court. Some argue for Justice Roberts but he has a time-consuming path in front of him before he arrives at the mountaintop where Scalia resides. That said Scalia is often controversial…

By: Amber &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Sclalia Comments on Detainees Provoke Controversy

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:27:53 +0000

[...] From Stop the ACLU In the upcoming issue of Newsweek the question is raised on whether Justice Scalia should recuse himself from the upcoming case of Hamdan v Rumsfeld over recent remarks he made during a speech. The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees in special military tribunals with limited rights for the accused. But Justice Antonin Scalia has already spoken his mind about some of the issues in the matter. During an unpublicized March 8 talk at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, Scalia dismissed the idea that the detainees have rights under the U.S. Constitution or international conventions, adding he was “astounded” at the “hypocritical” reaction in Europe to Gitmo. “War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts,” he says on a tape of the talk reviewed by NEWSWEEK. “Give me a break.” Challenged by one audience member about whether the Gitmo detainees don’t have protections under the Geneva or human-rights conventions, Scalia shot back: “If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son and I’m not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it’s crazy.” Scalia was apparently referring to his son Matthew, who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq. Scalia did say, though, that he was concerned “there may be no end to this war.” [...]

By: Atlas Shrugs

Atlas Shrugs — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:27:05 +0000

Scalia: “War is war,” “Give me a Break”
In the upcoming issue of Newsweek the question of whether or not Justice Scalia should recuse himself from the upcoming Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, over at stop the ACLU; The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big

By: JunkYardBlog

JunkYardBlog — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:15:01 +0000

The Insanity of the Times
It says something about the times when a man can offer banal common sense and it provokes revulsion: The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees…