Padilla

The NY Times has an article about Padilla today. He'll be allowed to see an attorney finally. Yeah. I've been a little miffed about the whole deal, not just for the obvious civil rights problems. A white kid, John Walker Lindh, got caught on a battlefield in a foreign war zone with weapons and in the service of a foreign army and he got a slap on the wrist. A Latino gets picked up in the U.S. with a laptop that may or may not have evidence that he may or may not be involved in a plot that may or may not exist and he's spirited away to a military brigg and hidden for almost 2 years. It's a load of crap and if Padilla was a white person I can't imagine this happening.
Anyway if you go to the SCOTUS Blog you can download the briefs for the Padilla case.