The U.S. Constitution Makes a Comeback! 
The Supreme Court just announced that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay (aka "Gitmo", introduced on last night's Daily Show as "the least popular Muppet"...) have a Constitutional right to challenge their detention in civilian courts.
In other words, one big-ass, unAmerican, unConstitutional loophole finally got closed, appropriately spanking Bush and Co. for treating our Constitution as an annoyingly archaic inconvenience.
And this was the third defeat handed to the Bush administration by the Supreme Court since 2004, regarding it's treatment of prisoners being held indefinitely without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, where an unknown number of detainees have committed or attempted suicide in protest.
The only disappointment for me was that the vote on this was close, 5-4, instead of unanimous as it really should have been. (No, one year of "Constitutional Law" in college 38 years ago does not make me a Constitutional scholar, but I do know that some basics simply cannot be messed with.)
So, as an antidote to the constant trashing of our civil rights by the Bush administration, click on this link and hear how the Constitution should be regarded and protected by all of us.
(Now she understood the Constitution...)
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times." 
Clear marks of a totally unAmerican American.
So what now? Will there at last be speedy trials for the hundreds of detainees? Remember, some have been waiting there for over 6 years. Gitmo has been the target of intense criticism here and abroad because of unjustified detentions and the "aggressive interrogations" (torture) routinely conducted there.
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