GOP Congressman Would Have Supreme Court Watch Over GTMO Detainees

By Ryan Grim

(The Politico)  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) apparently hasn’t taken kindly to the U.S. Supreme Court’s insistence that the judiciary has a right to play a role in determining the fate of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

If they want to get involved, Gohmert reasons, then let them get involved. He introduced a bill yesterday to transport the detainees from the naval base in Cuba to the grounds of the Supreme Court, where the Court “will be able to more effectively micromanage the detainees.”

He doesn’t stop there, apparently equally unimpressed with the intentions of congressional Democrats to involve themselves in the detainee issue. The bill, which Crypter John Bresnahan spotted in the congressional record last night, would also transport the detainees to the “Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period subsequently to be determined by the speaker.”