I missed Andrew McCarthy's NRO column "The Gitmo volunteers" when it was posted online this past Friday. It bears on the issues Paul, John and I have addressed in commenting on the Keep America Safe ad seeking the identity of those previously unidentified Obama administration Department of Justice lawyers who represented or advocated on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.
My main objection to trying foreign terrorists in federal district court is dogmatic, not pragmatic. These guys no more deserve access to our federal courts than to our welfare system.
The Washington Post reported this morning that Attorney General Holder has rejected the legal opinion of the Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) that the D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional.
