Remember that freedom thingie?

I think this is a sad but true depiction of what awaits Obama for his first term. As a law professor and President of Harvard Law Review, constitutional rights are more than just meaningless rhetoric to the President-Elect. Evidence of this has already surfaced with his desire to close Guantanamo Bay, and provide fair and open trials to some detainees while releasing others. This plan has met with criticism from both sides of the aisle. Regardless of your take on this, it is unlikely to happen soon, if at all. Believe me though, from a Constitutional Law point of view this is the only way to reconcile the detention of suspected terrorists with the freedom and liberty provided by the Bill of Rights.

Our facility at Guantanamo Bay represents just one of the many, many Constitutional violations endorsed and carried out by the Bush administration. From the Patriot Act to water-boarding, the violations range from small to downright egregious. It will take years to tape our Constitution back together in an attempt to undo the damage. Check out a pretty good list of Bush Constitutional violations (current through December 2007) here.

Let us hope that a man who has studied and taught Constitutional Law can return the Constitution to its once proud state as the "Supreme Law of the Land".