| A Chief Justice Roberts will guide the court's decisions on cases that will test the Bush administration's determination to emphasize the prevention of terrorism over both the rights of Americans and the rule of law. If the recent past is any prologue, the Supreme Court could soon rule on the administration's efforts to wordsmith its definition of torture; the rendition of suspected terrorists to countries that torture; the indefinite detention of American citizens; the Pentagon's Guantanamo tribunals and various provisions of the Patriot Act.
Yet neither the Senate nor the pundit class has paid much attention to Judge Roberts' views on these issues. This is surprising given that the D.C. Court of Appeals' recent ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . The three-judge panel, which included Roberts, gave the administration a significant legal victory... RAJ PUROHIT |
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