Wednesday, June 09, 2004

 

Finally, some good news!

The grapevine around the Supreme Court (which, I assume, leaks like a sieve) indicates Bush will likely lose all three detainee cases pending there -- and soon, before the Court goes on hiatus at the end of June:

While Supreme Court forecasts are hazardous at best, the conventional wisdom among former Supreme Court clerks is that recent disclosures about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and internal administration memos disavowing compliance with international treaties involving treatment of prisoners has badly hurt the government’s arguments before the court and turned two key “swing” justices—Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy—against it, the lawyer said.
 
Insider thinking within Justice has the Supreme Court voting six to three against the administration on Guantanamo and by a perhaps even larger margin in the Padilla and Hamdi cases.

Ladies and gentlemen, we may just win back our Constitution, after all . . .

posted by Michael 10:28 PM