{"id":9850,"date":"2006-10-20T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T17:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/20\/sigh-7.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T17:03:11","slug":"sigh_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/20\/sigh_7.html","title":{"rendered":"*SIGH*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words fail me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n

Moving quickly to implement the bill signed by President Bush this week that authorizes military trials of enemy combatants, the administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.<\/p>\n

In a notice dated Wednesday, the Justice Department listed 196 pending habeas cases, some of which cover groups of detainees. The new Military Commissions Act (MCA), it said, provides that “no court, justice, or judge” can consider those petitions or other actions related to treatment or imprisonment filed by anyone designated as an enemy combatant, now or in the future.<\/p>\n

[…] Habeas corpus, a Latin term meaning “you have the body,” is one of the oldest principles of English and American law. It requires the government to show a legal basis for holding a prisoner. A series of unresolved federal court cases brought against the administration over the last several years by lawyers representing the detainees had left the question in limbo.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, in Rasul v. Bush,<\/i> which gave Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their detention before a U.S. court, and in this year’s Hamdan v. Rumsfeld<\/i> , the Supreme Court appeared to settle the issue in favor of the detainees. But the new legislation approved by Congress last month, which gives Bush the authority to try detainees before military commissions, included a provision removing judicial review for all habeas claims.<\/p>\n

Immediately after Bush signed the act into law Tuesday, the Justice Department sent a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit asserting the new authorities and informing the court that it no longer had jurisdiction over a combined habeas case that had been under consideration since 2004. The U.S. District Court cases, which had been stayed pending the appeals court decision, were similarly invalid, the administration informed that court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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(via BD<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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