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(US) High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Tuesday August 09, 2005 02:59author by Scales_of_Justice

Bushite lawlessness being challenged

High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and overturn what they called an extreme ruling by high court nominee John Roberts.
Roberts was on a three-judge federal appeals court panel that last month ruled against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was Osama bin Laden's driver.
Hamdan's attorneys said in their filing with the justices that the appeals court had rejected long-standing constitutional and international law.

Full story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050808/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_military_tribunals

Military tribunals: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71398

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