The Hill Street Blahg

Yesterday, America was dealt a lethal blow which will have an everlasting impact on every single American citizen for years to come. Five appointed Supreme Court Justices have declared their war-making supremacy over both Congress and the President of the United States, no matter who that President may be. In short, these five justices have sided with the American hating ACLU, our enemies who want to kill us, and the Marxist leaning Democrats in Congress.

Thumbing their noses to all freedom loving Americans, not to mention precedent, the SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that the U.S. military lacks the legal authority to prosecute as many as 300 suspected terrorists held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay. The detainees, with the help of the ACLU, sued the government to contest their imprisonment and the current rules used to try them in military tribunals. Congressional Democrats along with their pals in the Move-On Media, immediately seized on the SCOTUS ruling claiming the ruling was a victory over George Bush instead of what it really was, a defeat for America. Not surprisingly, here’s what a few of our Democrat leaders had to say regarding this injudicious ruling.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the Court for “uphold[ing] the constitution of the United States” and reiterated her desire to see Gitmo shut down.

“Today’s Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush is a stinging rebuke of the Bush administration’s flawed detention policies,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), “and a vindication for those who have also argued from the beginning that it was unwise as well as unconstitutional.”

“Time after time,” says Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), “the Supreme Court has rebuffed the administration’s attempts to undermine the Constitution…It is a testament to our system of government that the Court has rejected the habeas-stripping provisions of the Military Commissions Act and reaffirmed that the government does not have the power to detain people indefinitely and arbitrarily without judicial review.”

Here’s a portion of what Justice Scalia had to say in his dissenting statement following the ruling:

Today, for the first time in our Nation’s history, the Court confers a constitutional right to habeas corpus on alien enemies detained abroad by our military forces in the course of an ongoing war…. The writ of habeas corpus does not, and never has, run in favor of aliens abroad; the Suspension Clause thus has no application, and the Court’s intervention in this military matter is entirely ultra vires.

The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed. That consequence would be tolerable if necessary to preserve a time-honored legal principle vital to our constitutional Republic. But it is this Court’s blatant abandonment of such a principle that produces the decision today. The President relied on our settled precedent in Johnson v. Eisentrager (1950), when he established the prison at Guantanamo Bay for enemy aliens.

To paraphrase what conservative radio host and constitutional lawyer Mark Levin had to say about this obviously partisan ruling:

When the reporters in the Move-On Media write today “it was a blow against George Bush,” they are lying though their teeth and are nothing more than left-wing propagandist spewing the talking points of our enemies who want to destroy us. When Supreme Court Justices sit down and rewrite the law and ignore all precedent because they want to advance the cause of the ACLU and the Marxist lawyers who represent these terrorists…shame on them.

You can listen to what Mark Levin had to say about this disgraceful ruling in it’s entirety here. What Mr. Levin has to say is well worth listening to and should be taken very seriously, if not prophetic.

This ruling is reason enough we must hold our noses and vote for John McCain in the fall. We as Americans can not afford to have more activist Judges who want to rewrite the constitution as they see fit, appointed to the SCOTUS.  Barack Obama will most certainly appoint such activist justices should he be elected our next president. Our children’s security, our grand children’s future, and the future of this country are at stake.