I try to stay out of politics here.  Well, for the most part.  Nevertheless, I had to share this from the New York Times:

In a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration’s central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism, a federal appeals court ordered the Pentagon to release a man being held as an enemy combatant.

“To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote, “even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution — and the country.”

“We refuse to recognize a claim to power,” Judge Motz added, “that would so alter the constitutional foundations of our Republic.”

Can I get an “Amen!”?

Now let’s just hope SCOTUS upholds this decision, as there’s no doubt this issue will go all the way up the chain until it lands in their collective lap.