A military judge has refused to delay a Guantanamo proceeding.

The Obama administration has been asking to delay all the proceedings for 120 days — as part of the proposal to close Guantanamo:

The request was quickly granted in other cases when prosecutors told military judges that "the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically."

But Judge James Pohl, an Army colonel, said he found the government's reasoning "unpersuasive."

The judge's failure to channel Obama administration policy is a sign that the procedures now in existence are reliable. Except all the other judges went along with it.