From CNN.com:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Suspected terrorists and foreign fighters held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their detention in federal court, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The decision marks another legal blow to the Bush administration's war on terrorism policies.
In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said the U.S. military lacks the legal autonomy to prosecute as many as 300 prisoners.
At issue were the rights of the detainees to contest their imprisonment as well as the rules established to try them in military tribunals.
A congressional law passed in 2006 would limit court jurisdiction to hear such challenges.
It is a legal question the justices have tackled three times since 2004, including Thursday's ruling.
Each time the high court ruled against the government's claim that it has the authority to hold people it labels "enemy combatants."
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Damn that Supreme Court and their insistence that BushCo follows the Constitution.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Suspected terrorists and foreign fighters held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have the right to challenge their detention in federal court, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The decision marks another legal blow to the Bush administration's war on terrorism policies.
In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said the U.S. military lacks the legal autonomy to prosecute as many as 300 prisoners.
At issue were the rights of the detainees to contest their imprisonment as well as the rules established to try them in military tribunals.
A congressional law passed in 2006 would limit court jurisdiction to hear such challenges.
It is a legal question the justices have tackled three times since 2004, including Thursday's ruling.
Each time the high court ruled against the government's claim that it has the authority to hold people it labels "enemy combatants."
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Damn that Supreme Court and their insistence that BushCo follows the Constitution.
