Clip: Appeals Court Rules Against Ashcroft in 9 / 11 Case

What is it about the right-wing that they think the US Constitution can be selectively applied ... and not to people, even other US citizens, they think they might be afraid of?

Clip: Appeals Court Rules Against Ashcroft in 9 / 11 Case - NYTimes.com.

A federal appeals court delivered a stinging rebuke Friday to the Bush administration's post-Sept. 11 detention policies, ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held liable for people who were wrongfully detained as material witnesses after 9/11. 

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the government's improper use of material witnesses after Sept. 11 was ''repugnant to the Constitution and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history.''