Supreme Court Rules In Favor
Of INDIVIDUAL
Right To Keep & Bear Arms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Individual
Americans have a right to own guns, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday for
the first time in the country's history, striking down a strict gun control
law in the U.S. capital. The landmark 5-4 ruling marked the first time in
nearly 70 years the high court has addressed the Second Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution. It rejected the argument the right to keep and bear arms
was tied to service in a state militia.
Court OK's border fence despite
environmentalist nutjob worries over butterflies
The
Supreme Court said Monday it won't stand in the way as the U.S.
extends its security fence hundreds of miles along the border with
Mexico, allowing building to proceed full-speed despite claims that
it harms the environment and animals who live in the area.
The
Supreme Court declared Wednesday that
executions are too severe a punishment for raping children,
despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts
the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state.
The court's 5-4 decision struck down a
Louisiana law that allows
capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12.
However devastating the crime to
children,
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion,
"the death penalty is not a proportional punishment
for the rape of a child." His four liberal
colleagues joined him, while the four more conservative justices dissented.
Describes how he is going to "Rip
Apart" 6 year old victims of child rape when he gets them on the witness
stand.
Supreme Court deals Bush blow
on Guantanamo rights
The US
Supreme Court Thursday ruled Guantanamo prisoners have the right to
challenge their detention at the US military base in civilian courts,
dealing a stiff rebuke to the Bush administration.
"The laws and constitution are
designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times," the court
said in its historic ruling, for the third time in four years striking down
the government's case for trying "war on terror" suspects in military
tribunals.
"Liberty and security can be
reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of
the law," the court added, ruling that prisoners in the remote US jail in
southern Cuba "have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus."
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