A federal appeals court has ruled that the Bush administration cannot conduct secret trials in the name of the "war on terrorism." The Washington Post reports that the opinion from the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of Michigan activist Rabih Haddad marked the first time since Sept. 11 that a major component of the Bush administration’s legal approach to the anti-terrorism campaign has been declared unconstitutional at the appeals court level, which is a step below the Supreme Court in the federal judicial hierarchy. As senior Judge Damon J. Keith wrote, The Executive Branch seeks to … Continue reading About Time