A Way Forward After Last Week’s Supreme Court Ruling on Enemy Combatants
By Sam Schneider | June 18th, 2008Read Andy McCarthy’s take on the Supereme Court’s Boumedine decision, from the National Review Online:
It is difficult to single out the most outrageous aspect of Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s cataclysmic Boumediene ruling last Thursday: The reckless vesting of constitutional rights in aliens whose only connection with our body politic is their bloody jihad against Americans; the roughshod ride over binding precedent to accomplish that feat; or the smug arrogance perfectly captured by dissenting Chief Justice John Roberts’s description of a “constitutional bait and switch” — a Court that first beseeches the political branches to enact a statutory procedure for handling combatant detentions, and then, once a thoughtful law is compliantly passed, invalidates the effort for its failure to satisfy the eccentric predilections of five lawyers.
And be sure to catch Hugh Hewitt’s excellent After Words interview with Andrew this weekend on Book TV’s After Words:
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Saturday, June 21, at 10:00 PM Sunday, June 22, at 6:00 PM Sunday, June 22, at 9:00 PM Monday, June 23, at 12:00 AM Sunday, June 29, at 12:00 PM About the Program
Andrew McCarthy, the lead prosecutor against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahmen and the other men responsible for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 recounts the case in “Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad.” Mr. McCarthy presents his thoughts on the trial and the current state of the war on terror. Andrew McCarthy discusses his book with Hugh Hewitt, host of the nationally syndicated radio program, The Hugh Hewitt Show and executive editor of Townhall.com.
