Supremes Rebuff Administration on Detainee Rights

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Quoting the blurb from Legal Times:

In a historic pair of decisions affirming due process rights even in a time of war, the U.S. Supreme Court largely repudiated the Bush administration's view that enemy combatants and detainees can be held indefinitely without access to federal court habeas corpus review. In both cases, different 6-3 majorities made it clear the government had gone too far in seeking unchecked power to detain and interrogate individuals in the war on terror.

Their full article is
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1088439688425

The actual opinions are online at
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/...supremecourtus.gov/opinions/03pdf/03-6696.pdf
and
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/....supremecourtus.gov/opinions/03pdf/03-334.pdf
 
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