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be suspended, enabling the Attorney General to expel certain immigrants without letting courts question whether the government's actions were legal or not.
The government initially disavowed Patriot II, but this wish list may yet see the light of day. President Bush and Attorney General Gonzalez have said they want the Patriot Act expanded. Amid mounting criticism from Americans of all political stripes, the Attorney General recently backed off slightly.
But the Administration still hasn't explained why the government should be able to ignore judicial checks and balances when it seeks our personal information.
The horrors at Abu Ghraib remind us how government zeal, without any oversight, can lead to excesses. Courts are there to keep the government on the right side of the Constitution. They understand there's a war on: in the Hamdi case, the Supreme Court held that every
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