All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

at least provides some judicial review.

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional.