...Ketanji Brown Jackson explained how the Supreme Court decided that even those embattled prisoners had rights.

“Judge Jackson was one of many hundreds of lawyers…to challenge this remarkable authoritarian experiment in Guantánamo that actually held exclusively Muslim prisoners in an island, without any protections of law, where they were subject to persistent torture and arbitrary detention based on executive say-so,” Baher Azmy, legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said on the Democracy Now! news hour. “She’s operating in the highest traditions of the law. It’s lawyers in the legal project that exposed so many of the underlying lies in Guantánamo, lies about dangerousness, lies about humane treatment, lies about national security and compliance with law. Her work should be valorized.” ...

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