Digby: Statue of Liberty Play

There's much to say about the Hamdan decision and I'll leave it to the legal experts to parse the decision for it's implications. According to the pundits and insiders, the politics of the decision are quite simple:

Republicans yesterday looked to wrest a political victory from a legal defeat in the Supreme Court, serving notice to Democrats that they must back President Bush on how to try suspects at Guantanamo Bay or risk being branded as weak on terrorism.