This week, the Supreme Court ruled that habeas corpus is such a basic tenet of our freedom that it must be extended to non citizens who are incarcerated in this country or its territories. By the narrow margin of five to four, the highest court in the land came down on the side of freedom from tyranny.

I am not an attorney nor an expert on Constitutional law, however there is an excellent discussion of why this was an incredibly important decision by the Supreme Court in...