“Screw the Constitution and Geneva, Sheneva” says Tony. "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son, and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy""This isn't the first time Mr. Scalia has commented on matters before the court. Two years ago he recused himself from a Pledge of Allegiance case after making public comments about the matter." "’This is clearly grounds for recusal,’ said Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a human-rights group that has filed a brief in behalf of the Gitmo detainees. ‘I can't recall an instance where I've heard a judge speak so openly about a case that's in front of him-without hearing the arguments.’"
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