From the "Me too" file.

Tom Levenson, on Walker & Co.'s defiance of the Wisconsin courts…

...I’ll say to all those right bloggers who maunder on about Obamacare or the Libyan attacks or birth certificates or whatever, if you wish to invoke the words “rule of law” you better have something to say here.

Gotta give them time, I guess, but my bet is on crickets.

Me too.

And mine too, too...

Atrios says…

…that the internet says that Prop H8 is history.

Good enough for me. Hurrah!

Good advice…

…from Tom Harper.

If you don’t want your own city council, school board, district courts and county offices to be infiltrated by a bunch of snake-handling whackjobs — follow all of these local races, learn who the candidates are, and Vote!

Being generally skeptical about absolutes, I'm not really sure all politics is local, but that's where it starts.

It's a good thing, I suppose…

…that Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr worries about fairness…

"I worry about being fair to the 20,000 people we charge here" annually.

…but to be fair, should we be charging 20,000 people a year? That seems a lot of citizens to be hauling into court. How many of those folks have actually injured another citizen? How?

And where will we site the next jail?

Inch by inch.

It's going to take years to reclaim our republic. After all, we're at the end of a couple of decades of counter-revolution by the political descendents of the colonial tories. There's progress being made, though…

AP - Two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

There's still hope within our judiciary, and not always from the usual suspects.

Of course, there's only one real hope for our judiciary.

More and better Democrats.

Some examples.

It's good to know…

...that there are some things they still can't do here.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush cannot order the military to indefinitely imprison a suspected al Qaeda operative, who is the only foreign national held in the United States as an "enemy combatant," a court ruled on Monday.

The 2-1 appellate ruling was a major setback for Bush's contention in the war on terrorism that he has the power to detain people in the United States without charging them.

The court panel based in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that the Qatari national involved, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, must be released from military custody.

Judge Diana Gribbon Motz explains what every schoolboy should know…

"The government cannot subject al-Marri to indefinite military detention. For in the United States, the military cannot seize and imprison civilians -- let alone imprison them indefinitely."

No, they cannot. Not this time.

And not for Jose Padilla, whose case was ordered into civilian criminal courts.

Or for Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was removed from detention and returned to his homeland, Saudi Arabia.

And not for you and me thanks to judges who uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution.

Padilla, Hamdi, al-Mari. Three strikes for Bushco's™ 'enemy combatant' policy.

And every schoolboy should know what that means, too.