Enacted out of selfish and stupid partisan motives, fuelled by fear and blind ignorance on both sides of the aisle, it is a shameful law. It will harm many innocent people and it will make the nation not a jot safer.

Any candidate for federal office who does not endorse its repeal—like every person who voted for its passage—is a candidate not fit to govern.

-Aziz Huq on The Military Commissions Act, passed on Thursday