I wrote a post yesterday which mentioned how I believe the Supreme Court’s ruling in regards to detainees at Guantanamo Bay provided us with a prime example of why our next president would be so important. To provide a little more information for you, I’ve posted Sen. Barack Obama’s reaction to the decision below.
Today’s Supreme Court decision ensures that we can protect our nation and bring terrorists to justice, while also protecting our core values. The Court’s decision is a rejection of the Bush Administration’s attempt to create a legal black hole at Guantanamo – yet another failed policy supported by John McCain. This is an important step toward reestablishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law, and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus. Our courts have employed habeas corpus with rigor and fairness for more than two centuries, and we must continue to do so as we defend the freedom that violent extremists seek to destroy. We cannot afford to lose any more valuable time in the fight against terrorism to a dangerously flawed legal approach. I voted against the Military Commissions Act because its sloppiness would inevitably lead to the Court, once again, rejecting the Administration’s extreme legal position. The fact is, this Administration’s position is not tough on terrorism, and it undermines the very values that we are fighting to defend. Bringing these detainees to justice is too important for us to rely on a flawed system that has failed to convict anyone of a terrorist act since the 9-11 attacks, and compromised our core values.
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The Supreme Court is the one overriding reason that it makes me impossible to support John McCain under any circumstances. The Arizona senator says that as President he will appoint conservative justices to the Court. But if some of the dissenting and concurring opinions of the two most conservative justices, Scalia and Thomas, ever become the Law of the Land, there is the possibilty that the office of the Presidency could devolve into a petty dictatorship. Could a more conservative Supreme Court result in our country having better protection against outside threats. Perhaps it could, but at the cost of having a countyr not worth protecting.