Friday, June 29, 2007

Supreme Court to review Guantanamo cases

I the recent surprise The Supreme Court has ruled to allow the detainees held at Guantanamo to take their case to the federal Courts. The action, announced without comment along with other end-of-term orders, is a setback for the Bush administration. It had argued that a new law strips courts of their jurisdiction to hear detainee cases.
In April, the court turned down an identical request, although several justices indicated they could be persuaded otherwise.
The move is highly unusual. But i think that this move shows that the United States is willing to be contitutional to anyone even those held in the United States. The appeals court is considering how to handle the detainees' challenges to military tribunals that found them to be enemy combatants, which left them without any of the legal rights accorded prisoners of war.
Even though the move seems radical, it shows that there is still hope for those in need.

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