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Boumediene v. Bush: A Small Extension of Habeas Corpus Rights, A Firm Event Of Judicial Activism

By Christopher Bird

The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Boumediene et al v. Bush et al 549 U. S. __ (2007) has been controversial in ways most decisions rarely manage. Republican Presidential candidate John McCain attacked the decision, calling it “one of the worst decisions in history.” (McCain did not elaborate as to whether Boumediene is worse than Dred Scott v. Sandford 60 U.S. 393 (1857), Korematsu v. United States 323 U.S. 214 (1944), or, for that matter, Bush v. Gore 531 U. read more

Full post as published by The Court on June 18, 2008 (boomark / email).