NOW THERE'S AN ISSUE FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE TO THE VOTERS, HUH?:

Senate Approves Limiting Rights of U.S. Detainees (ERIC SCHMITT, 11/11/05, NY Times)

The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to them last year by the Supreme Court when it allowed them to challenge their detentions in United States courts.

The vote, 49 to 42, on an amendment to a military budget bill by Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, comes at a time of intense debate over the government's treatment of prisoners in American custody worldwide, and just days after the Senate passed a measure by Senator John McCain banning abusive treatment of them.

A law would be better than the other necessary alternative which is for the Admin istration to simply refuse to acknowledge the Court's ruling.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 11, 2005 7:14 AM