Padilla and our rights

Jonathon Turley, Law Professor at George Washington University, has some interesting comments on the Padilla case today: You Have Rights -- if Bush Says You Do

“The court is currently reviewing the Padilla case, with a decision expected in the next few weeks, and there is a growing question of whether a majority can be found to support President Bush's claims of absolute authority to hold a U.S. citizen indefinitely without filing charges.”

And he very eloquently sums it all up this way, “There is something far more unsettling in this scene than an administration openly playing to the Supreme Court. It was a reminder that we are morally adrift, abandoning legal principle for the proceeds of arbitrary power.
We have lost that moral distinction between ourselves and our enemies if we believe that our success is measured by the confessions that we coerce rather than the civil liberties that we defend.”