This article in the Washington Post is worth looking at closely. This week the Senate slipped a provision into a bill denying prisoners at Guantanamo the right to a hearing before a military tribunal, which the Supreme court recently said was required. There may not be much to hope for favorable rulings in business matters for those of us on the left, but if there is any truth at all in the opinions expressed in the Washington Post article linked to above, it is quite possible that the court may take on the administration and even Congress in matters of foreign policy. Keep your fingers crossed.

With President Bush’s foreign policy generally backed by a Republican-controlled Congress, friction is developing with a branch of government that usually stays out of international issues: the Supreme Court.

Both in their decisions and in public remarks off the bench, key members of the court are expressing views either explicitly or implicitly at variance with the administration’s approach.