Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied.

The Department of Justice has filed a response seeking to prevent the prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay access to counsel, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

As a former prosecutor, let me say this: If they are guilty, counsel can't save them (unless perhaps, if you have horribly violated their civil or human rights). So, why deny them counsel?

And judges? DO YOUR JOBS. Quiet acquiescence to this sort of behavior on the part of the executive branch is pathetic.

Phillip Carter breaks it down in Slate, for the non-lawyers in the crowd.

I don't want to live in Winston Smith's America.