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Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act

"Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first principles. Chief among these are freedom from arbitrary and unlawful restraint."
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:32 AM

    Bush made the Supreme Court irrelevant

    That's not a secret. The Presidency no longer has to worry about what the SC decides. And Obama will be well served to consider that when his insanely right wing partisan court decides against him 100% of time.

    —The last digit of pi Read The last digit of pi's other letters

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