{"id":952,"date":"2009-06-01T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=952"},"modified":"2009-06-01T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T18:33:00","slug":"supreme-court-justice-aids-torture-coverup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/supreme-court-justice-aids-torture-coverup\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justice Aids Torture Coverup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg approved an Obama administration request to have an additional 30 days to submit their appeal to justify suppressing the photos of US troops torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.  The administration can now dally until July 9 before submitting their brief arguing their case.<\/p>\n<p>This is simply one more layer of BS atop of all the government excuses that have piled up since May 2004.  Ginsburg&#8217;s order is a green light for the government to continue playing games and concocting excuses not to disclose the hard evidence of U.S. war crimes. <\/p>\n<p>The SCOTUS Blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/wp\/more-time-for-abuse-photos-appeal\/\">notes:<\/a> &#8220;President Obama and his aides are pursuing two paths for trying to overturn that disclosure order: first, they are seeking action by Congress to amend the FOIA to bar the release; if that does not succeed, they plan to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the Circuit Court decision&#8230;. The Ginsburg delay order gives Congress more time to act.  The Senate has passed a measure to block the photos\u2019 disclosure, and the two houses are expected to work on the issue early this month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The torture scandal continues revealing the sham that there are any checks and balances to restrain our rulers from seizing and abusing absolute power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg approved an Obama administration request to have an additional 30 days to submit their appeal to justify suppressing the photos of US troops torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration can now dally until July 9 before submitting their brief arguing their case. 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