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In case you were wondering why the ruling was so bad, ANdrew McCarthy spells it out at NRO.

Here's a taste:

The Court has decided that the combatants have constitutional habeas rights. If you can follow this, the bloc of liberal justices reasons that the framers designed our fundamental law to empower enemies of the American people to use the American people's courts as a weapon to compel the American people's commander-in-chief to justify his actions during a war overwhelmingly authorized by the American people's elected representatives . . . even as those enemies continue killing Americans.

McCarthy now calls for quick legislative action to prevent the country's national security from being decided by the courts.

Read it all.
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