Writs and Wrongs

I have it on good authority, from my progressive friends, that the Constitution is a “living document”. Its interpretation currently influenced by foreign law, evolving standards of decency, penumbras and adumbrations, an activism born of social awareness and a doctrinaire left liberal agenda.

That these nine (lawyers) are unelected and unaccountable makes their potential for mischief undeniable.

In Boumediene v. Bush five liberal jurors became literalists.

The prevailing opinion cited the Suspension Clause having been violated. In the absence of rebellion or invasion, the public’s safety doesn’t require (or permit) the suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

One would have thought such creative interpreters of the constitution could have divined, in a time of war without precedent, other threats to the public safety. Perhaps someone might reintroduce 9/11 by way of evidence or argument.