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By Kent Scheidegger et al.

More Power to SCOTUS, according to AEI visiting scholar John Yoo. Discussing the winners and losers in Court's recent term in today's Philadelphia Inquirer he writes "....the biggest winner by far was the court itself. Slowly but surely, the justices have expanded their power to make many of our society's fundamental political and moral decisions. He pays attention to the pivotal role that "the wandering justice Anthony Kennedy" had, leading the liberals in Boumediene, and siding with conservatives in District of Columbia v. Heller. Hamdan: The partial guilty verdict and short sentence the military panel gave to Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, last week was not an indictment of the military's trial process accroding to Jess Bravin's WSJ piece today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 11, 2008 (boomark / email).