SUICIDE PACT, REALLY

The Curmudgeonly Clerk has a post on the meaning of the term, here. For the term to have bite in this context, it has to mean (I think) that a bad Court decision upholding rights will aid terrorists in some way. When there is an actual threat of death (however one wants to calculate its probability), speaking of "suicide" carries a pretty clear message of bringing the causes of that death closer in some way.