The most recent battle in the Guantanamo Bay prisoner controversy is over the Military Commissions Act, signed by the president just six weeks ago. A key piece of that law prevents those designated "enemy combatants" from challenging their detention in federal court. But the constitutionality of that provision is under consideration by two appellate courts, and lawyers for both the detainees and the Bush administration say it is likely the Supreme Court will again step in to decide the matter.
December 08, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When the U.S. military began shipping prisoners from the war on terror to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, one goal was clear: to keep them outside the reach of the U.S. court system.
But nearly five years later, those cases remain stuck exactly where the Bush administration didn’t want them to be.
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