Supreme Court judge Klaus Tolksdorf said the state could not abandon principles of justice, however grave the crime.
"The fight against terrorism cannot be a wild, uncontrolled war," he said.

Recently Fred Kaplan on Slate debunked much of this early attack. A good example he cited: Republican Party chief Ed Gillespie slammed Kerry for having voted to cut $1.5 billion from the intelligence budget in 1995. But this money was appropriated for a spy satellite that the National Reconnaissance Office never launched. And the Senate was voting to rescind these funds, which were not going to be used. A majority of the Senate supported this position. But facts don't matter.

Blackmun's notes show that in 1992 Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist led a five-justice majority to overrule Roe. Four other justices voting with Rehnquist were Byron White, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Kennedy. Rehnquist himself was to write the majority opinion.

Aerospace giant Boeing Australia has been granted a legal exemption to discriminate against employees on the basis of nationality to allow it to meet US anti-terror requirements.