Wall Street Journal: President Kennedy
The Wall Street Journal has posted this editorial that begins: “Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy isn’t known for his judicial modesty. But for sheer willfulness, yesterday’s 5-4 majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush may earn him a historic place among the likes of Harry Blackmun. In a stroke, he and four other unelected Justices have declared their war-making supremacy over both Congress and the White House.”
It concludes: “Justice Jackson once famously observed that the Constitution is “not a suicide pact.” About Anthony Kennedy’s Constitution, we’re not so sure.”