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McCain + The Court
surprised TPM is not covering McCain's "worst decision in our country's history" comments in re the Supreme Court's ruling that habeas corpus applies to Guantanamo detainees (Dred Scott? Plessy v. Ferguson?). it is a political shift since yesterday--he's tacking towards Bush in the hopes of influencing the security/fear vote and painting Obama into the "card-carrying member of the ACLU" corner. tricky for Obama to respond, although Kennedy's opinion is a good place to start:
"Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first principles. Chief among these are freedom from arbitrary and unlawful restraint and the personal liberty that is secured by adherence to the separation of powers."
or perhaps Ben Franklin:
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
I wish a reporter would ask McCain if he's read the opinions, which he surely hasn't.
McCain's comment should remind everyone (perhaps Hillary loyalists in particular) that McCain, like George W. Bush, does not give a rat's tuckus about the law or the rule of law. If he is elected, we can expect lots of little Scalias running around the halls of Justice for decades to come.
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