This will be our one post on the Roberts nomination and we think is speaks volumes…

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor:

“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation’s citizens.”

VERSUS

Judge John Roberts, joining opinion of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld:

“Under the Constitution, the President ‘has a degree of independent authority to act’ in foreign affairs, and for this reason and others, his construction and application of treaty provisions is entitled to ‘great weight.’”

Think Progress - The Difference Between O’Connor and Roberts