By a slim margin, the Supreme Court upheld the Constitutional guarantee of habeas corpus, to the dismay of the authoritarian wings of all three branches of government.
But no comment was more dissonant than that of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who, in the dissenting opinion, commented on national security:
Scalia called the judiciary "the branch that knows least about . . . national security concerns" and penned the darkest line of the court's 126 pages of back-and-forth: "It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed." [emphasis mine]
So a member of the governmental branch that knows the least about national security has based his dissenting opinion on… wait for it… yes: National Security.
How ‘bout this, Mr. Scalia, you keep to the Constitution and don’t busy your tired little brain with things you admittedly know nothing about. But then again, if you do not even understand irony, then how can you comprehend the intricacies of that "goddamned piece of paper", the Constitution?
Almost certainly, indeed!
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