Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker blogs on the legality of killing bin Laden. He concludes “Bin Laden didn’t get a trial and didn’t deserve one. But the number of people for whom that is true is small.” This thinking is seriously defective, because it obviously prejudges bin Laden and uses that prejudgment to deny him his rights. Besides, a trial isn’t only to protect the rights of bin Laden. It is to protect the rights of any accused person! It’s a social good. He should have had a trial as much for our sakes as his. Destroying his rights … Continue reading Undermining the Rule of Law