Guantanamo detainees get swatted down again

Shock me that the D.C. Circuit Court rejected their habeas appeals.

The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. And it may have a fringe benefit.

A spokeswoman for Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he was accelerating efforts to pass a revision to the law that would restore detainees’ legal rights, noting that some 12 million lawful permanent residents currently in the U.S. could also be stripped of rights.

The new provision, introduced by Leahy and then-Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter R-Pa., narrowly failed last year on a 48-51 vote.

Of course, some GOP nutbar like John Cornyn could always filibuster.