Gitmo and SCOTUS
Sanity Within The Supreme Court?
Sanity Within The Supreme Court?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:15 AM
AH! But…for how long??
Enemy Combatants of the Illegal Nature Don’t Get Constitutional Renderings…for now…
Justices Won’t Hear Detainee Rights Cases — for Now
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 3, 2007; Page A09
A divided Supreme Court declined yesterday to consider fresh questions about the legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, rejecting an appeal by inmates there who are seeking access to federal courts to challenge their imprisonment as “enemy combatants.”
The court decision was a significant victory for President Bush, who has asserted for nearly six years that the fate of hundreds of detainees, held without charges as alleged terrorists at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, should be determined by secret military tribunals. The decision leaves intact, at least for now, a measure passed at the administration’s urging last year when Congress still was in Republican hands that denies Guantanamo Bay detainees the right to such habeas corpus petitions.
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