Supreme arrogance

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Author(s) New York Daily News editorial board
Source New York Daily News
Date June 12, 2008
URL http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/06/12/2008-06-12_supreme_arrogance.html
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Quotes-start.png "In sum, the court bestowed upon the judiciary the power to decide who can be held as an enemy combatant whenever judges feel inclined to intervene. This instead of the military, under court supervision, making such a determination - as directed by the considered judgments of an elected Congress and an elected President. As Roberts put it, Americans "today lose a bit more control over the conduct of this nation's foreign policy to unelected, politically unaccountable judges," a group that is hardly qualified to make life-and-death calls as to which prisoners are terrorists and which are simple goatherds, as they all claim to be." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Supreme Court was correct in its ruling on the topic Boumediene v. Bush.