A quick hurrah…

…as the Supreme Court strikes a blow for "justice for all…"

The Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that the commissions are unconstitutional.

In a 5-3 decision, the court said the trials were not authorized under U.S. law or the Geneva Conventions. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion in the case, called Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recused himself from the case.

The inclusion of the Geneva Conventions, affirming the status of treaties as a part of US law, seems to have some broad and encouraging implications for the possibility of the Court assuming its proper role in reigning in an Executive gone wild.