Sen. Graham's Strategy To Restore Bush�s Detainee Policy Is Unconstitutional

Graham is a slitherin little guy, now isn't he?

Think Progress � Sen. Graham�s Strategy To Restore Bush�s Detainee Policy Is Unconstitutional:

"In an interview with the National Review, Sen. Lindsey Graham strongly objected to the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the Geneva Conventions applied to enemy combatants. Graham suggested that Congress should reverse the Supreme Court's interpretation:

We've got to put a fence around this decision by the Court to grant Common Article Three of the Geneva Convention rights to terrorists. In 2002, Bush said that enemy combatant terrorists will be treated humanely within the spirit of the Convention but not given Convention status. I think he was right. You don't want to erode the Convention.

What Graham is suggesting is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has the final say on how treaties should be interpreted. The Court explained in another case, Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, issued the same day has Hamdan:" Read On ^