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Government

Apr. 12, 2007

Congress Must Restore Detainees' Habeas Rights

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - As detainees are being tortured in Cuba, the Legislature needs to step in and do what the Supreme Court will not.

FORUM COLUMN

By Marjorie Cohn
     
      The Bush administration has stopped the Supreme Court from giving the Guantánamo detainees their day in court - at least for now.
      In Boumediene v. Bush, 05-5062, and Al Odah v. U.S., 05-5064, 53 men challenged the constitutionality of the habeas-corpus-stripping provision of the Military Commissi...

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