One cheer for each of the justices — a bare majority, but a majority — who
ruled today that "foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts."
You get one guess with "justices" dissented from the ruling. For bonus points, guess whether they engaged in exactly the kind of fearmongering that constitutes the basis for Dubya's policies, foreign and domestic, to justify their opinion that the Constitution can be set aside when it's politically inconvenient.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority:
The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.
That's a no-brainer. I wish he'd remembered that when he voted on
Bush v. Gore.
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