The parallels to HamdanvRumseld are everywhere. As a DCCircuit judge, John Roberts had overturned the habeas petition/grant of a non-citizen "enemy combatant" held at Guantanamo. (An earlier case, Hamdi, involved a US citizen.) According to Roberts, the Geneva Conventions apply only to nations, not to individuals, though I'm not even cer…
The parallels to HamdanvRumseld are everywhere. As a DCCircuit judge, John Roberts had overturned the habeas petition/grant of a non-citizen "enemy combatant" held at Guantanamo. (An earlier case, Hamdi, involved a US citizen.) According to Roberts, the Geneva Conventions apply only to nations, not to individuals, though I'm not even certain what that means. Suffice to say that if I were an Afghan citizen or a pregnant woman or a soldier falsely accused, I'd swallow the hemlock before placing my fate in the hands of John Roberts.
The parallels to HamdanvRumseld are everywhere. As a DCCircuit judge, John Roberts had overturned the habeas petition/grant of a non-citizen "enemy combatant" held at Guantanamo. (An earlier case, Hamdi, involved a US citizen.) According to Roberts, the Geneva Conventions apply only to nations, not to individuals, though I'm not even certain what that means. Suffice to say that if I were an Afghan citizen or a pregnant woman or a soldier falsely accused, I'd swallow the hemlock before placing my fate in the hands of John Roberts.