Which lede do you like?
1. Jess Bravin in The Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court ruled that foreign prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay may challenge their detention before a federal judge, a historic decision that rebuffs the Bush administration’s years-long effort to curtail the legal rights of terrorism suspects.
2. Linda Greenhouse in The New York Times:
The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its third consecutive rebuff to the Bush administration’s handling of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, ruling 5 to 4 that the prisoners there have a constitutional right to go to federal court to challenge their continued detention.
3. Robert Barnes in The Washington Post:
A deeply divided Supreme Court yesterday ruled that terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to seek their release in federal court, delivering a historic rebuke to the Bush administration and Congress for policies that the majority said compromised, in the name of national security, the Constitution’s guarantee of liberty.
4. David Savage in the Los Angeles Times:
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected for the third time President Bush’s policy of holding foreign prisoners under exclusive control of the military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the men have a right to seek their freedom before a federal judge.
I like 1 and 4. (Oops, I meant 1 and 3.)
But Keith Olbermann offered the pièce de résistance, namely Jonathan Turley, on “Countdown”:
