on monday the supreme court declined to consider hedges v obama a constitutional claim challenging a law that could enable the indefinite military detention of us citizens within the us without trial charge or evidence of crime the decision is remarkable both for its implications for fundamental rights and for its reflection on judicial independence hedges v obama the supreme court digs its head deeper into the sand it appears that the west has lost the quality of moral indignation which it did express sometimes in the past to castigate egregious behavior in different parts of the world the politics of judicial repression in egypt