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BushTheIdiot
Waxing Scalia, are we Glenn? (see: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.)
I love Scalia's dissent in Hamdi (joined by Justice Stevens) and quoted it at length in my book. He dissented because he thought the majority did not go far enough in placing limits on the President's power to detain Americans as "enemy combatants" and without due process (he thinks it's never constitutional, which is true). It's clear he would only apply that reasoning to citizens, but since that was the only issue in that case, it is a very potent bit of judicial reasoning.