What Was the Supreme Court Thinking?

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Author(s) Mark Davis
Source The Dallas Morning News
Date July 3, 2006
URL http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/hamdan_not_your_ordinary_botch.html
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Quotes-start.png "As for the Geneva Conventions, Justice John Paul Stevens in his opinion for the majority seems stunningly unaware of when they apply and when they do not. They apply when we are at war with a uniformed enemy belonging to another country that is a signatory to and practitioner of the Conventions' protections. Not one of those conditions applies in the war on terror." Quotes-end.png


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