Three months ago, I remarked in these columns that the Detainee Treatment Act altogether eliminated the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction over the Hamdan case. While I am beyond the capacity for surprise at the usurpations of which the Court is capable, I am dismayed at today’s ruling to the contrary. I take comfort, however small, from the fact that the most brilliant and independent judicial mind of the last 20 years, that of Justice Scalia, agrees with me about this first order of business in today’s disastrous ruling, and that Justices Thomas and Alito join Scalia on this point.

More later when I have digested something of the 185 pages in the latest chapter of judicial tyranny over the United States.