Something else we gained yesterday
With numerous cases likely to be decided by the Supreme Court in the next several years that linger from the years of Bush radicalism – involving truly vital questions of executive power and core individual liberty – a McCain/Palin victory would have been, for this reason alone, a genuine disaster, possibly a final nail in the coffin of our constitutional framework. Now, the Court majority which decided these landmark cases of the past several years, imposed some limits on the presidency, and upheld those core rights in the face of a true onslaught will be revitalized and strengthened, and will ensure that the Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas faction remains, in most matters, an impotent minority for many years to come, if not decades.
Continue with Glenn Greenwald’s Three huge, immediate reasons to be happy about last night
