[sinkspur]

But to abandon the high ground after a key legal victory is won at personal cost in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal is neither seemly, intelligent or particularly worthy of this Administration.

So the Supreme Court abandoned the high ground, too? They, after all, agreed with the Bush administration, contra Luttig.

Luttig's friends do him no good service putting this out. It makes him look petty and childish.

[Paul Ross]

So the Supreme Court abandoned the high ground, too? They, after all, agreed with the Bush administration, contra Luttig.

I don't think you understand what happened there. The Gonzales fear was that the Padilla case would go against them...so they caved in pre-emptively. For the Court to then side with the Administration when post-handling motions sua sponte by the 4th Circuit were struck down did not get to the substantive rights issues at the heart of the dispute. Fortunately. But the Administration was hardly proved "right."

Luttig's friends do him no good service putting this out. It makes him look petty and childish.

It doesn't look "petty" or "childish" to me...or almost any real conservative.