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Scalia - I've read some articles posted when this topic came up before, saying that basically Scalia does not believe that any citizen can be denied the right to US rights and trial. I don't think the SCOTUS votes are there to sustain the enemy combatant designation for Padilla - the administration knows this, that's why we are seeing these machinations.

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As harsh as Scalia was toward the government in the Hamdi case (the case of an American caught red-handed on a foreign battlefield fighting against American troops), I don't think the President wants so much as a glimpse of his reaction to the Padilla case.

Scalia's going to have the government lawyers shell-shocked and in tears when he's done with them.