Wednesday, July 30, 2008

HR 6615- One Solution to GITMO Detention   [Gregory S. McNeal]

Representative Louis Gohmert (R-TX) has proposed H.R. 6615 (I think in jest): 

The bill reads, in part:

H.R. 6615: To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

To provide for the transport of the enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Washington, D.C., where the United States Supreme Court will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees by holding them on the Supreme Court grounds, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ‘Giving Inmate Terrorists More Opportunities (GITMO) Act of 2008’.

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SEC. 3. TRANSPORTATION AND DETAINMENT OF ENEMY COMBATANTS.

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(b) Shelter on Supreme Court Building Grounds- The Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the author of the majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, is directed to provide shelter for the detainees outside the United States Supreme Court building, but on the building grounds. The Secretary of Defense shall provide guards to watch over the prisoners and shall implement a system to ensure that the prisoners receive the appropriate amount of food and water. Should the detainees need the use of restroom facilities, they shall use the facilities inside the United States Supreme Court building. . . .

07/30 05:26 PMShare