Because I Say So

That's the title of this Dahlia Lithwick report on yesterday's Supreme Court argument in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. It also neatly summarizes the position of the Bush administration on every legal issue related to what it chooses to call the war on terrorism. You really don't need to read the article unless you care about freedom, the rule of law, the Constitution, and whether use of the writ of habeas corpus will be available when you need it.