The Supreme Court has ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts:

In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the constitutional rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval ( Read more... )

I'll say this for the Bush administration: by attacking and dismantling the Constitution at every turn, they've turned me into a total Constitution fangirl.

Now they want to give retroactive immunity to the telecoms who've been knowingly, illegally spying on Americans for the past six years - since before 9-11. Glenn Greenwald explained how ( Read more... )

He's willing to filibuster any attempt to give the telecomms retroactive immunity for their crimes against us. From Dodd's YouTube statement:

I don't believe it's right for telephone companies to be turning over the private telephone records of American citizens to the Bush Administration without prior judicial approval. This is a basic, ( Read more... )

... but it's important, and a battle most Dems aren't fighting, unlike SCHIP.

Back in August, Congress passed an extension/expansion of FISA that gave Bush broader spying powers (possibly because he scared them with a bogus threat on Capital Hill), but that wasn't enough for Bush. He... and his enablers... have been pushing for retroactive ( Read more... )

Before their summer recess, Congress gave Bush even broader spying powers. Now it looks like those powers might include warrantless physical searches on U.S. soil.

And why did some Democrats go along, allowing this to pass? Well, according to one citizen who wondered that very thing to their senator:

In brief, it appears that being called “ ( Read more... )