Hurrah! Habeas Corpus Is Back!

William Weston, a sociology professor and moderate Democrat, opines about yesterday's Supreme Court ruling regarding Guantanamo Bay detainees: "The Supreme Court made a very welcome and long-overdue decision yesterday restoring the most fundamental legal right to all American prisoners. I have felt that the worst scandal of the lawlessness of the past few years has been the way our government has imprisoned people they don't like without charge or trial for years and years. These prisons were deliberately placed where American lawyers could not get, to prevent them from even meeting with their clients or petitioning for a charge. And U.S. citizens were tossed in along with foreigners, with no more protection than Soviet prisoners used to have. To my mind this is a disgrace worse than our tortures, and that is saying a great deal. A majority of the court had the legal sense and the courage to make the right call. The fact that the Supreme Court of the United States has to have courage to defend habeas corpus is a sorry commentary on how low things have sunk. Let the healing begin."

My response: My only question regarding this ruling is why do enemy combatants now have access to U.S. courts before U.S. soldiers, who still have no access?