] The court refused to endorse a central claim of the White
] House since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001: that
] the government has authority to seize and detain terror
] suspects or their protectors and indefinitely deny access
] to courts or lawyers while interrogating them.

Good. For a country purportedly fighting for "the rule of law" we've been doing a pretty crappy job about even bothering to follow our own.

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