https://freerepublic.com/tag/judicualoverreach/ en-us Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:09:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221732/posts April 03, 2009, 2:00 p.m. Imperial Judiciary Goes GlobalBy the Editors In 2004, the Supreme Court sowed the seeds for a national-security upheaval when it ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that war prisoners held outside the United States had a right to challenge their detentions in federal court. Last year, in Boumediene v. Bush, the justices continued the seismic shift, holding that the right they had invented in Rasul — a right extended to aliens whose only connection to the United States is in waging war against it — was somehow rooted in our Constitution. Thursday, the inevitable earthquake... National Review Online https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2221732/posts#comment Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:09:40 GMT