The worst SCOTUS decisions in history.
John McCain, proving that he is losing touch with reality, came out against the supreme court ruling that even suspected terrorists have the right to question their incarceration by saying:
I think it’s one of the worst decisions in history, … It opens up a whole new chapter and interpretation of our constitution.
So let me get this straight. The conservative court actually upholds the right of all people to habeas corpus and McCain questions it as being one of the worst decisions in history?
Let us look at a couple of BAD SCOTUS decisions, shall we?
Plessy v Ferguson: You know, the whole “separate but equal” ruling that gives people a warm fuzzy feeling (I think it is nausea) inside? I wonder where McCain stacks the recent decision against Plessy.
Dred Scott: Back before our country was enlightened enough to realize that black people are people too, we had the Dred Scott verdict. Scott was not allowed to challenge his status in federal court. Where does McCain rank this in his list?
Another disturbing part of this article was the comment by fellow Republican and freedom hater Lindsey Graham who stated:
Americans are going to be shocked to find that that mastermind of 9-11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, now has the same legal standing as an American citizen.
What Graham doesn’t understand is that as a country we should strive to be better than those who would attack us. Nobody here is going to say that Khalid is a good man. However, even the most vile of murderers deserve a fair trial and a day in court. It shouldn’t matter if the person is a citizen or not. We should strive for greatness and part of what makes us a great nation is the fairness of our court system. The ruling today returns a small portion of the fairness that had been stripped. To know that McCain would turn back the clock and rule that non-citizens are not worthy of equal access to our court system just proves he is not suitable to be our next President.
This will also be posted at my Obama for President blog.