Much is being made of Scalia's recent comments at the U. of Freiburg about detainees at Guantanamo. The most interesting thing to me was that he had a son in the military. Don't tell Richard Belzer.
"War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," Justice Scalia said in the talk at the University of Freiburg. "Give me a break."
Justice Scalia, when asked whether detainees at Guantanamo have protections under international conventions, said: "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."
