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Right wing bloggers suffer from long court ruling on habeas

June 13th, 2008

Simon Owens over at Bloggasm reminds us of the torment right wing bloggers faced yesterday with the issuance of the Supreme Court decision restoring Habeas rights to Guantanamo prisoners:

I felt sympathy for right wing bloggers today after the Supreme Court ruled that habeas corpus would be restored to Guantanamo detainees. I knew that they not only had to disagree with the justices but they also had to declare their rulings unconstitutional and the work of “judicial activism.” But to make those claims right wing bloggers would actually have to read the court opinions, and those opinions are just so gosh darn long.

Well, luckily they employed their Woodward/Bernstein investigative journalism skills to speed up the process:

He goes on to give examples of the careful research process they engaged in.

Entry Filed under: Constitutional Law, Culture, Guantanamo, Law