NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the prospect of indefinite detention for exercising First Amendment rights.
The ruling against the provision that provides for indefinite detention without trial of Americans merely suspected of abetting terrorists is a victory for civil liberties and the Constitution. I imagine the neocons will be outraged.
