Courts in this country will go to the ends of the earth to make sure an obviously guilty capital murderer gets all the process that is due, and then some, and then some and then some more and finally even more. Courts will do things like make up controversies over IQ tests that, if there is any thought given whatsoever to reality, demonstrably show someone not to be retarded, see Hall v. Florida.

Or you’ll see courts making up the right of criminal aliens to walk our streets when they have no right to walk our streets, Zadvydas v. Davis, but protect rights that are actually there–then we get balancing tests and all sorts of evasions.

For a country that makes a fetish about “the law,” we sure do have a lot of lawlesssness.