Based on a very quick skim, it looks the Court’s opinion in Boumediene v. Bush is pretty much exactly what I predicted would happen in my Senate testimony over a year ago. Nothing I’ve seen in the Court’s opinion so far is at all surprising, and it’s a big defeat for the Bush Administration. This doesn’t mean I have some amazing powers of observation; rather, I think this was a defeat that you could see coming from miles (or in this case, years) away. Or perhaps that whatever happened inside the Court on the road to the opinions, the result is pretty much what was expected.