The faltering Bush administration is continuing to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanimo- the NYT reports:

Lawyers for many of the detainees, including the ones named in the Supreme Court ruling, say the Bush administration is purposely ignoring the justices’ mandate and stalling.

They cite the government’s refusal to acknowledge that detainees are entitled to free access to lawyers to make their cases before federal judges. More broadly, they argue that the government is still trying to argue issues it has already lost in the Supreme Court, especially that the detainees have full rights to challenge their detentions in lower federal courts.

The Justice Department responded to demands by the detainees’ lawyers with language remarkably similar to that it used almost two years ago in the case it has already lost.

Can’t wait to get some adults in there and clean up this mess. This shit is really indefensible. If we’re attempting to be a beacon of freedom for the rest of the world, what does it say about us when we give up following the law when it gets hard?

Once the president decides he’s above the law, it’s not like the Supreme Court can stop him- at least, not this Supreme Court… We’ll be repairing this damage for decades. With any luck, the repairs will start tomorrow.