Padilla is going to the Supreme Court.

The Jose Padilla case is a bit of a pet cause of mine, because of its implications for Civil Liberties. Recap: Jose Padilla is an American citizen arrested on American soil who is alleged to have had a plot for the detonation of a radioactive device in the US. I don't know if he's a good guy or bad guy, and I don't know if he's guilty.

But he is a US citizen apprehended on US soil, and, at least according to my understanding of American Law, entitled to a trial rather than idefinite detention in a South Carolina naval brig.

WASHINGTON - "Dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla has asked the Supreme Court to limit the government's power to hold him and other U.S. terror suspects indefinitely and without charges.

And, by the way, one of the judges on the 4th circuit court of appeals that previously upheld the government's detention of Padilla was John Roberts new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. That decision was handed down within weeks of the nomination announcement when Roberts must surely have known that the Bush Admin was looking at him for a SCOTUS seat. It just stinks.