The Court's legitimacy arises from the source of its authority - which is, of course, the Constitution - and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review.

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

If judicial review means anything, it is that judicial restraint does not allow everything.

at least provides some judicial review.

Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 years.

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.