Exquisite Corpus: Judges Junk Great Writ for Bush's Gulag

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

Guantanamo Detainees Lose Appeal (Washington Post) Excerpt: A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that hundreds of detainees in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in federal courts, a victory for the Bush administration that could lead to the Supreme Court again addressing the issue. (...) This decision was of course rendered by a conservative-leaning court, and co-written by Judge David Sentelle, a right-wing hatchet man who has toted water for the Bush Faction and other right-wing authoritarians for many years. Sentelle, pictured right, was part of the panel picked by right-wing apparatchik William Rehnquist that removed Whitewater investigator Robert Fiske when he was about to clear the Clintons on the failed land deal case, and replace him with Kenneth Starr and his merry band of sexual obsessives. Sentelle also voted to overturn the convictions of Iran-Contra scamsters Oliver North and John Poindexter for their roles in supplying guns to the Shiite extremist regime in Iran and funneling money to the terrorist Contra army in Nicaragua...

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