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Salon
by James Ross

06/13/08

For the third time in four summers, the U.S. Supreme Court has slammed the Bush administration’s detention policies at Guantanamo Bay — locking up terrorist suspects indefinitely and beyond the law. And this time, some real progress might even come out of it. In a 5-4 decision drafted by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that Guantanamo detainees have a constitutional right to habeas corpus — that is, to challenge the legal basis for their detention in a federal court...

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/06/13/gitmo_bush/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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A Great Decision on Habeas Corpus
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/13/9605/

Witness Against Torture: Supreme Court Upholds the Rights of Guantanamo Detainees
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0613-02.htm



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