Just what you'd expect from the objectively Mitch McConnellist "left"
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > (Merrick B. Garland: no legal rights for Guantanamo prisoners.) > > Washington Post, March 12, 2003 > Detainees Are Denied Access to U.S. Courts > By Neely Tucker > > A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the 650 suspected > terrorists and Taliban fighters held at a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo > Bay, Cuba, have no legal rights in the United States and may not ask > courts to review their detentions. > > The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals > for the District of Columbia Circuit, an important legal victory for the > administration in its war on terrorism, means that the detainees can be > held indefinitely without access to lawyers or judges. > > The attorneys for 16 detainees -- 12 Kuwaitis, two Britons and two > Australians -- sought to force the government to explain in court why > the men are being held. That motion, known as a writ of habeas corpus, > establishes a court's authority over a person in custody. > > But the court rejected those appeals, citing a World War II Supreme > Court case about German prisoners as precedent and ruling that because > Cuba holds ultimate sovereignty over the leased military base, U.S. > courts have no jurisdiction there. > > "No court in this country has jurisdiction to grant habeas relief to the > Guantanamo detainees, even if they have not been adjudicated enemies of > the United States," wrote Circuit Court Judge A. Raymond Randolph in the > 18-page opinion. "If the Constitution does not entitle the detainees to > due process, and it does not, they cannot invoke the jurisdiction of our > courts to test the constitutionality or the legality of restraints on > their liberty." > > Circuit Court Judge Merrick B. Garland and Senior Circuit Court Judge > Stephen F. Williams concurred. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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