Thursday, June 29, 2006

Hamdan case Wash Park Prophet: "The Hamdan case addressed the rights of people detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay when tried for crimes beyond merely being detained, a detention which was itself upheld. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against many key parts of the Bush Adminisration's enemy combatant doctrine. The main ruling was 5-3 with Justice Roberts who ruled in favor of the government in the U.S. Court of Appeals before he was appointed, not participating. Justice Kennedy, part of the majority, concurred in only part of the primary opinion by Justice Stevens." "2008 pres" 6:15:52 PM

Oil and gas drilling New West: "A day after Sen. Conrad Burns made the first step in banning all new oil and gas leases on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front, Questar E&P, a natural gas company, decided to hand 1,691 acres of its leases in the Front's Blackleaf Canyon area over to Trout Unlimited. Trout Unlimited's Vice President for Conservation, Chris Wood, said TU had been in negotiations for some time on the Front leases, but the Burns language introduced yesterday in the Interior Appropriations Bill was a final piece of the puzzle... "This deal is a first of its kind, Wood said, but hopefully not the last -- on the Front or West-wide... "The Burns move is one of a few such surprises in the last two weeks on the issue of oil, gas and public lands. Last week, Republican congresswoman Heather Wilson (who is running for re-election) signed on with Democrat Tom Udall to support legislation to keep oil and gas development out of New Mexico's Valle Vidal. A few days earlier, Wyoming Republican Sen. Craig Thomas had a bombshell of his own, saying generally, national forests should be off limits to energy exploration." "2008 pres" 6:01:45 PM

DNC upsets New Hampshire Union Leader: "Secretary of State William Gardner promised yesterday he will not allow the traditional key role of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Presidential primary to be diminished by a proposed Democratic National Committee rule change. The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee voted 23-3 to push New Hampshire to third place in the 2008 Presidential nominating lineup. The vote recommended that the full DNC authorize an additional caucus between Iowa's leadoff caucus and the New Hampshire primary and an additional primary after New Hampshire's contest but before Feb. 5, 2008." Thanks to the Daily Kos for the link. "2008 pres" 6:30:34 AM

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