Coming up short on Habeas Corpus for Gitmo detainees
Strike the Root
by Marjorie Cohn
04/03/07
The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantanamo detainees their day in court — at least for now. In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas corpus-stripping provision of the Military Commissions Act that Congress passed last year. On Monday Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell one vote short of the four needed to grant review of the lower court decision which went against the detainees...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn04032007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn
by Marjorie Cohn
04/03/07
The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantanamo detainees their day in court — at least for now. In Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States, forty-five men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas corpus-stripping provision of the Military Commissions Act that Congress passed last year. On Monday Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell one vote short of the four needed to grant review of the lower court decision which went against the detainees...
http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn04032007.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Habeas+Corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Military+Commissions+Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Marjorie+Cohn
rudkla - 4. Apr, 16:04
