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=== News Update ===
Federal judge upholds Bush terrorism law
The Associated Press
Published: Thursday, December 14, 2006
WASHINGTON - A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new
terrorism law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not
have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge James Robertson is the first to
address the new Military Commissions Act and is a legal victory for the
Bush administration at a time when it has been fending off criticism of
the law from Democrats and libertarians.
Robertson rejected a legal challenge by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former
driver for Osama bin Laden whose case prompted the Supreme Court to
strike down the Bush administration's policy on detainees last year.
Following Hamdan's victory, Bush asked for and got a new law that
established military commissions to try enemy combatants and stripped
them of the right to seek their freedom in U.S. courts.
Hamdan's case was sent back before Robertson, a nominee of President
Clinton who was a prominent civil rights advocate in private practice.
Though Robertson originally sided with Hamdan, he said that he no longer
had jurisdiction to hear Hamdan's case because Congress clearly intended
to keep such disputes out of federal courts. He said foreigners being
held in overseas military prisons do not have the right to challenge
their detention, a right people inside the country normally enjoy.
The ruling does not affect the fate of hundreds of detainees whose cases
are awaiting a ruling by a Washington appeals court, which is reviewing
two precedent-setting detainee cases challenging the new law.
source:
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/12/14/a7.nat.guant.1214.p1.php?
section=nation_world
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