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Howdy do there.. (This is my first time posting, so I'm sorry in advance if I sound dumb) I'm a college senior taking a seminar course in Civil Rights and Liberties. My teacher is total partisan from Massachusetts, and it doesn't help either that I'm in NYC. So that makes me the odd ball in the class. I pass the time by keeping my mouth shut and smiling at him. Currently, he's focusing on the freedom of speech and the press, in "Wartime." Cases such as Schenck v. United States, Gitlow v. New York, Dennis v. United States, Brandenburg v....

The three "war-on-terrorism cases" decided by the Supreme Court at the close of its term in June have been portrayed — especially overseas — as significant defeats for the Bush administration. This is largely because the court ruled, over the administration's strong objections, that the men, now held as al Qaeda and Taliban members at the Guantanamo Bay naval station in Cuba, may challenge their detention through the federal courts. But in fact, when all these cases are read together — the Guantanamo Bay case, along with the court's decisions in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld v. Padilla (both involving...