The "Fiend of the Court " Brief

Supreme Court Fraud. I think we've just witnessed the creation of a new crime. Two senators, Jon Kyl from Arizona and Lindsay Graham from South Carolina -- both GOPers, of course -- tried to defraud the Supreme Court recently. They filed an amicus brief ("friend of the court") in favor of the Bushiites in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case over the Guantanamo detentions. The funny thing about this brief is that it makes certain claims as to this issue's legislative history based on a particular debate that took place on the senate floor. The funny thing about that debate is that it took place only after congress had already finished with the issue but, conveniently, before this brief was filed. The other funny thing is that the debate took place between just two senators, after hours, with no one else present and the text was inserted into the congressional record. Why it would almost appear as if this debate happened for no other reason than to allow for someone to make the very claims that are being argued in this very brief. Can you guess who those two senators who staged this mock debate were? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?...

Oh, John Dean has his hand up...

The Deceptive Amicus Brief