Since the US Supreme Court cleared the way for voucher programs, the battle over vouchers has shifted to the states. And in Colorado, voucher proponents lost: Americans United for Separation of Church and State today lauded the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision against a school voucher program that would have funneled large sums of public funds [...]
Archive for June 28th, 2004
Vouchers Defeated in Colorado
Posted in Church & State, Legal Issues on June 28, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Padilla Case in Holding Pattern
Posted in Legal Issues on June 28, 2004 | Comments Off
Five Justices decided the case on a technicality. Padilla should have brought the case in South Carolina, not New York. The case now goes to South Carolina to be heard. If there is some good news it is that four judges came out very, very strongly against the Government in the case and would have [...]
Larger Win for Rights
Posted in Legal Issues on June 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
This decisions is good: The Supreme Court ruled Monday that foreign terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can use the American legal system to challenge their detention, a major defeat for President Bush. By a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled that American courts do have jurisdiction to consider the [...]
Bush Admin Afraid of Insurgency
Posted in Iraq on June 28, 2004 | 14 Comments »
That is the only way to read their decision to hand over sovereignty two days early. They did not even have live video — much less a spectacle — to show on CNN this morning. The only reason to turn what should have been a grand day for the Iraqis (in theory, they were getting [...]
Minor Victory in Hamdi Case
Posted in Legal Issues on June 28, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Washington > Supreme Court Partially Sides With Bush on American Detainee Case” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/politics/28CND-SCOT.html?hp”>The Supreme Court ruled that Congress did give the president the authority to hold enemy combatants indefinitely, and that that is constitutional. However, the Court did rule that Hamdi is entitled to appear in court to challenge his status. That is good, but [...]
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