1.0 link 107453 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-cole/putting-boumediene-in-glo_b_107453.html The dissenting Justices in last week's landmark ruling on the constitutional rights of detainees at Guantanamo condemned the decision as unprecedented judicial activism, and in a sense, it was. Never before has the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional joint action of the President and Congress on a military matter during wartime. Never before had the Court extended the constitutional writ of habeas corpus - the right to challenge one's detention in court -- to foreigners held abroad as enemy fighters. Never...

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