Adam Serwer says conservatives are afraid of our own laws, even when the system works.
On Tuesday, former Guantánamo Bay prison detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 224 people were killed.
Conservatives were quick to remind everyone that Ghailani was convicted of conspiracy to destroy property, not of murder — and was acquitted on hundreds of other counts as a result. But conservatives retreated to this position only after all of their dire predictions proved false.
