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Baby Barry loves it, the Supremes ignoring precedent to hand out Constitutional rights to alien enemies captured abroad. McCain is appalled, and he’s not alone.

"’The Nation will live to regret what the Court ha[s] done today,’ Justice Antonin Scalia writes in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush. Fred Thompson thinks so, too.

I immediately thought of President Lincoln, who suspended habeus corpus for every American during the Civil War, and the South hadn’t even knocked down any buildings with thousands of people in them.

UPDATE: All hail the imperial court. It’s for sure the jihadis will. In practical terms, however, it could boil down to our troops taking a lot fewer prisoners. They’re not likely to jeopardize their own lives to keep the imperial court happy.