Summary
Sharply limiting the powers claimed by the Bush administration since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that prisoners held as enemy combatants have a fundamental right to take their cases to court.
The administration had asserted that terrorist suspects - including roughly 600 prisoners held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - are unlawful fighters and can be locked up indefinitely with little contact with the outside world and few if any constitutional protections.See the full content of this document
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Ruling Clarifies Detainees' Rights
But in cases involving U.S. citizen Yasser Hamdi and the...
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