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No Judicial Recourse for Detainees

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Posted on Feb 21, 2007

A federal appeals court has upheld the Military Commissions Act, denying Guantanamo detainees access to the U.S. judicial system. Attorneys for the detainees said they would appeal the 2-1 decision, which fell along party lines, to the Supreme Court.


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The 2-1 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dismisses hundreds of cases filed by foreign-born detainees in federal court and also threatens to strip away court access to millions of lawful permanent residents currently in the United States.

It upholds a key provision of the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a Defense Department system to prosecute terrorism suspects. Now, detainees must prove to three-officer military panels that they don’t pose a terror threat.

Democrats newly in charge of Congress promised legislation aimed at giving detainees legal rights. Attorneys for detainees said they would appeal Tuesday’s ruling to the Supreme Court.

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By Marshall, February 22, 2007 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment
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You silly gooses - due process is guaranteed to US citizens, not prisoners of war and foreign born detainees like these.  Prisoners of war are covered by the Geneva convention, which does not afford due process a US citizen would get.

This has always been the case and US prisoners abroad get the same treatment (actually far worse).  So what’s the problem here?

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By rodney matthews, February 22, 2007 at 12:18 pm Link to this comment
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All the world,s dictators are following our Bushes example.

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By Mary, February 21, 2007 at 7:59 pm Link to this comment
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I am stunned to find myself living in the era that ends habeus corpus after something like 800 years.  We gotta do something about this, people.  Our soldiers, who we have always been taught give their lives for our freedom, are doing something else now.  Is that what we want? Perhaps a lot more people need to become card-carrying members of the ACLU.

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By Luis Arangua, February 21, 2007 at 12:40 pm Link to this comment
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Welcome to the world of the Pseudo-Christian Neo-Fascist, AKA the modern day Republican Party.

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By trantieungoc, February 21, 2007 at 11:33 am Link to this comment
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Are we living in other planet where only sub-human beings exist ?

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By John in Bear, February 21, 2007 at 9:15 am Link to this comment
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What universe did I wake up in where an American court rules that some people don’t have a right to due process?  Where evidence obtained through torture is admissable to convict someone in secret?  WTF?  Animals have more protection under our laws than people in Guantanamo.  This is insane!

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