Thursday, June 12, 2008

VIVA LA LIBERTÉ!

Another Supreme Court decision goes against Bush! Language from the latest:
Within the Constitution’s separation-of-powers structure, few exercises of judicial power are as legitimate or as necessary as the responsibility to hear challenges to the authority of the Executive to imprison a person ... The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law.
This is Justice Kennedy writing for the majority in Boumediene v. Bush

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