January 5, 2006, When there just are no rules...
One gets cases such as the "up or down vote on whether we are a dictatorship" a/k/a Padilla v. Hanft, or whether an American citizen picked up in the United States can be held at the sole whim of the President.
The Supreme Court granted the government's request to move Mr. Padilla from military to civilian custody, hinting as this LaLa Times piece suggests, that the Government's cynical move of indicting Padilla after refusing to do so for years somehow "moots" the case.
We'll see...