If you want to dissect where the debate between the Bushies and everyone else starts and ends, look no further than today's Supreme Court ruling about Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. The Bushies lost this one, having been called out for violating international military law (you can't prosecute "conspiracy" against enemies, only specific acts) and the Geneva Convention. And the military lawyer - a JAG dude, I'm assuming - Commander Charles Swift called this ruling a high water mark for our society. Besides having the coolest title in the military (generals got nuttin' on being a frickin' commander), Swift knocked it out of the park on insta-responsing. "A return to our fundamental values," Swift deemed it and called it "a victory, folks." Yup, he even got the "folks" bit in there. So the Bushie supporting legal scholar took a broadside at the ruling by calling it "an example of justices making it up as they go along." Which I assume to also be a direct slam on Anthony Kennedy in his role as the new Sandra Day O'Swingvote. And Clarence "I eat alone" Thomas read his first opinion from the bench in his 15 years on the Court. Tell me that doofus wasn't the least qualified mind of his generation. If you want to know what sort of bootlicker justice Harrier Miers would have turned out to be, look no further than Chuckles Thomas. Regardless, big ruling. Court watchers surely will have that tingly feeling all day.
Hope your own tingles are justifiable. Rock on.
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