Arthur Silber: The Padilla Indictment: Stalling for Time, Avoiding the Issue...and the Fight Goes On

Several weeks ago, I wrote an essay titled, Three Strikes and We're Out. My focus in that piece was not on the Bush administration's foreign policy, but on the effects that policy continues to have on liberty and individual rights here at home. I wrote: "As profoundly disastrous as the Bush foreign policy has been and continues to be, what will determine the future of our country is whether the basic constitutional principles which have maintained the United States for over 200 years continue to be maintained domestically."