My friend the Talking Dog has posted about the oral argument at the supreme court last week.
... here is an excerpt..
All of which is a
long-winded explanation for my fascination with the Supreme Court’s taking up
this issue now, at a time when the Biden Administration (like the Obama
Administration, and for that matter, Dubya’s Administration) was committed to
closing GTMO “if it could.” We will doubtless pass 20 years of GTMO when the
decision comes down. Will the Court actually follow the law, and, for example,
conclude that holding prisoners of war from the Afghan conflict, at least those
who aren’t charged with war crimes, is illegal, now that the Afghan war is
finally over? Will the Court find that state secrets does not apply when
something is no longer secret nor an actual matter of national security? Let’s
just say that my knowledge of the subject tells me that this isn’t how you bet.
This Supreme Court, one third of whom was appointed by Donald Trump, might just
want to keep the GTMO/Muslim prisoner demonstration project alive and well, in
case someone like Trump (or perhaps Trump himself) decides to rev it up again
for use against whatever enemies of the state happen to need disappearing.
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