Today's craven opinion in US vs. Moussaoui is worth a read, if only as an example of some of the most results based backwards reasoning since Bush vs. Gore.
Just 2 months ago, no less a figure than right wing zealot Scalia said (in Crawford v. Washington) that the 6th amendment mandates that in all criminal prosecutions the defendant shall enjoy the right to be confronted with the witnesses against him, a practice he noted dates back to Roman times. The 4th Circuit doesn't seem to have read that decision, or the 6th Amendment to the Constitution. In their haste to assist the government's prosecution of Moussaoui, they are throwing out the Constitution, the documents that public officials in this country take a oath to defend.
Shame on Chief Judge William W. Wilkins, who joins Roger B. Taney of Dred Scott ignominy in the list of American jurists who in the passion of the moment have forgotten their duty to America's highest ideals, and its fundamental law, the United States Constitution.
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