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Scotus Kills Habeas - Lauren Johnson - 11-06-2012
http://www.emptywheel.net/2012/06/11/scotus-kills-habeas-corpus/
Posted on June 11, 2012 by emptywheel
SCOTUS has just declined to take all seven of the pending Gitmo habeas corpus petitions, including Latif and Uthman.
This effectively kills habeas corpus.
Consider what SCOTUS just blessed:
- Holding a person indefinitely for being in the wrong place at the wrong timeincluding a school, a road, and a guest housewhere suspect people are.
- Holding a person indefinitely based on an admittedly error-ridden report the government wrote up itself.
- Holding a person indefinitely based on pattern analysis.
- Completely upending the role of District Court judges in the fact-finding process.
Scotus Kills Habeas - Albert Doyle - 11-06-2012
The Bush administration was all about installing military power over democracy.
Time for a Constitutional refurbishment.