A federal district court ruling, widely touted by liberals, that found fault with the government's military tribunals has been struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit, which is the penultimate court in America. This decision is a victory in the war on terror.
Check out Powerline for analysis by the legal minds there.
UPDATE:
A federal appeals court put the Bush administration's military commissions for terrorist suspects back on track Friday, saying a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison who once was Osama bin Laden's driver can stand trial.
A three-judge panel ruled 3-0 against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose case was halted by a federal judge on grounds that commission procedures were unlawful.
"Congress authorized the military commission that will try Hamdan," said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The protections of the 1949 Geneva Convention do not apply to al Qaeda and its members, so Hamdan does not have a right to enforce its provisions in court, the appeals judges said.
Now that the top federal appeals court has confirmed that the Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists, as we have already stated, can the media drop the whole debate about it?
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