Cheney against sanctity of the home!

Julian Sanchez has an additional reason to condemn the deplorable effort by the far right to blame lawyers who defended Guantanamo inmates for…something.

The central, celebrated cases that have established the boundaries of our most cherished civil liberties often involve bad people who are….Few other people have an incentive to bear the burden of fighting all the way to the Supreme Court.  If you can get acquitted on the merits, it’s not worth a protracted battle over the procedural fine points.

It’s not only that defending those accused of deplorable crimes is the right thing to do, it’s also the reason we can enjoy a number of important freedoms at all.

-John

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March 9, 2010 · Filed Under John

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