RTF 9^th Amendment

…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.