Much like religion, many of the aspects of American democracy are not real. We only like them, use them, revere them and tolerate them in the abstract. When - in the cliched, cold, hard light of day we have to live by them -- we abandon them. I salute a jurist who is serious about the Constitution, even when not being used as an instrument of convenience.
"The Constitution is the rock upon which our nation rests. We must follow it not only when it is convenient, but when fear and danger beckon in a different direction. To do less would diminish us and undermine the foundation upon which we stand."
JUDGE LEWIS A. KAPLAN OF UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN MANHATTAN, who barred testimony from a crucial witness in the first trial of a former Guantánamo detainee.
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