hans.gerwitz

…the Constitution doesn’t say every indi­vidual in the United States or every citizen is hereby granted or assured the right to habeas.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at the Senate Judiciary Committee (tran­script not available online, see coverage by the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times)

The best reaction to this attitude towards habeas corpus I can imagine is Mark Jaquith’s: it wasn’t long before he went from “pedantic tool” to “the reason for the 2^nd Amendment” in my mind.