has the duty of implementing the constitutional safeguards that protect individual rights. When the Government acts to take away [fundamental rights] ..., the safeguards of the Constitution should be examined with special diligence.”); accord Brill v. Hedges, 783 F.Supp. 340, 346 (S.D.Ohio 1991) (“[T]he judiciary’s role [is to serve] as a protector of individual rights and freedoms.”). This is true in even the most dire of circumstances. See Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 536, 124 S.Ct. 2633, 159 L.Ed.2d 578 (2004) (plurality opinion) (“We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation’s citizens.”); see also Home Bldg. & Loan Ass’n v. Blaisdell, 290 U.S. 398, 426, 54 S.Ct. 231, 78 L.Ed. 413 (1934) (<HOLDING>). This tension between assuring security and
holding that appointment of a conservator does not remove a mentally disabled persons legal disability so as to start the statute of limitations running holding that even the war power does not remove constitutional limitations safeguarding essential liberties recognizing that uniting power to prosecute and power to sentence in executive would raise constitutional concerns recognizing that exercise of legislative police power extends to safeguarding solvency of banks holding that statute does not remove plaintiffs burden of proving causation and reasonableness