The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military tribunals held at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba were not legal, and that the Bush administration was overstepping its legal boundaries in allowing them. In a 5-3 ruling, Justice Stevens wrote the majority opinion with Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, and Souter, and ultimately decided that the tribunals violated military justice law, the Geneva convention and 2005's Detainee Treatment Act.
Democrats announced plans Monday to block a proposed Congressional pay raise unless the federal minimum wage sees its first increase in nearly a decade.
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