"This is an important step toward re-establishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus."

Barack H. Obama
Senator from Illinois and presumptive Democratic candidate for president, June 12, 2008

•Obama commenting on the Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush, which holds that foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts