Courts Are Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Battle Against Drugs

War, so the saying goes, is hell. And not just for soldiers in the line of fire. As no less an authority than Chief Justice William Rehnquist has noted, personal freedom is one of the casualties of war.

In his 1998 book, "All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime," the chief justice wrote of the Civil War that "Lincoln and his Cabinet chose to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, interfere with freedom of speech and of the press, and try suspected political criminals before military commissions."

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