Bush signs Military Commissions Act

The New York Times:

...a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy.

The U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006 was signed into law today by President Bush. Here's the best part:

e)(1) No court, justice, or judge shall have jurisdiction to hear or consider an application for a writ of habeas corpus filed by or on behalf of an alien detained by the United States who has been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as an enemy combatant or is awaiting such determination.

The U.S. can now continue to detain and torture without those pesky lawyers getting in the way. U.S. Senator Russell Feingold sums it up:

Under this legislation, some individuals, at the designation of the executive branch alone, could be picked up, even in the United States, and held indefinitely without trial and without any access whatsoever to the courts. They would not be able to call upon the laws of our great nation to challenge their detention because they would have been put outside the reach of the law. That is unacceptable, and it almost surely violates our Constitution.