The Supreme Court continues to scare me
Via Kevin comes this AP report:
The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether the government properly withheld names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the weeks and months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The high court turned down a request to review the secrecy surrounding detainees, nearly all Arabs or Muslims, who were picked up in the United States following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Hiding such activities is never OK.
January 13th, 2004 at 5:20 pm
In this case, it’s the press that scares me. They have an annoying habit of misrepresenting a denial of certiorari (i.e., refusal to hear a case) with a judgment on the merits. That the court declined to hear this case tells us nothing about how they would have ruled on the case if they had taken it, or how they will rule on any future cases that raise the same issue.