That Wacky Liberal Media!

This is the headline on Yahoo News about the Supreme Court's decisions earlier today affirming that, no, this isn't totally a dictatorship yet:

Supreme Court Deals Blow To War On Terror.

I shit you not.

The U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) severely limited the Bush administration's war on terrorism on Monday and allowed cases brought by terror suspects challenging their confinement to proceed in the American legal system.

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In one ruling the court said the hundreds of foreign terror suspects at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba could turn to American courts to challenge their confinement. In another ruling it said an American held in his nation is entitled to procedural protections to contest his detention.

"Today's historic rulings are a strong repudiation of the administration's argument that its actions in the war on terrorism are beyond the rule of law and unreviewable by American courts," Steven Shapiro of the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) said.

Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the Guantanamo case, said, "This is a major victory for the rule of law and affirms the right of every person, citizen or noncitizen, detained by the United States to test the legality of his or her detention in a U.S. court."

By a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled American courts do have jurisdiction to consider the claims of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who said in their lawsuits they were being held illegally in violation of their rights.

So, let me get this straight. Reaffirming that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land (see Amendments V, VI, and VIII) is somehow bad for the United States. That makes sense.

Those crazy liberals!