1.0 link 24104 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/what-the-supreme-courts-s_b_24104.html I certainly haven't caught all the strands of commentary on the Court"s Hamdan decision, but what I've heard and read seems to me to ignore the real point of the opinion: that the Court took the case for consideration at all. As I dimly recall my Con Law studies, Supreme Courts are nototiously hesitant to review Presidential powers during wartime. Think of the Court refusing to prevent the incarceration of perfectly innocent Japanese-Americans during World War Two. Think of the...

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