Still No Habeas Rights for You

The Bush administration is asserting that George W. Bush is the only one who can decide if you will be granted habeas corpus rights to a fair trial or be locked away indefinitely as an “enemy combatant.”

Some major U.S. news outlets have assured American citizens that they still have habeas rights even if the Military Commissions Act of 2006 took them away from everybody else. But Bush’s lawyers say no, it doesn’t matter if you’re a U.S. citizen or not.

Bush is the Decider on who gets or doesn’t get what the Founders used to call the “unalienable rights.”