"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."
Don't you wish it had been the President of the United States saying that? Shouldn't it have been the President of the United States saying that? But it wasn't. Instead it was Justice Sandra Day O'Connor writing for the majority in a 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that President George W. Bush's use of presidential powers to fight terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States cannot override civil liberties.
Globe and Mail (Toronto): Top U.S. court undercuts Bush
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