New York Times Likes Gitmo Decision. DUH!

J.J. Jackson* | June 29, 2006

I was just reading the article over at the New York Times concerning the Guantanamo decision and I thought it was awfully funny to read this paragraph.

In the courtroom on Thursday morning, the chief justice sat silently in his center chair as Justice Stevens, sitting to his immediate right as the senior associate justice, read from the majority opinion. It made for a striking tableau on the final day of the first term of the Roberts court: the young chief justice, observing his work of just a year earlier taken apart point by point by the tenacious 86-year-old Justice Stevens, winner of a Bronze Star for his service as a Navy officer during World War II.

The article by By Linda Greenhouse is an absolute riot because of this because it is wholly untrue and purely puff to make the Chief Justice seem inferior to the intellectual Justice Stevens.

Justice Stevens’ opinion was not a “point by point” rebuke of Roberts? work. What it was, in fact, was a rambling, long-winded attempt to justify giving terrorists protections under the Geneva Conventions, which they clearly do not follow themselves. The opinion itself is utterly destroyed by the dissenting opinions of Alito, Thomas and Scalia. No doubt if Roberts had not recused himself, his dissent would have probably also dwarfed Stevens? attempt at understanding law.

I do like however how she threw in the mention of his Bronze Star and military service. That seems to be a common tactic to try and give credence to one’s opinions even when the opinions are ignorant.

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