scotusblog.com - 12/5/2008
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Taking on another historic constitutional fight over war-on-terrorism powers, the Supreme Court agreed on Friday to rule on the President’s authority to order the seizure in the U.S. and long-term detention of an individual suspected of war crimes.
news.yahoo.com - 12/5/2008
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Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on
Friday that it would decide whether President George W.
Bush can order the indefinite imprisonment in the United States of an al Qaeda suspect without charging him.
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Justices to rule on terror suspect's detention
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SCOTUS To Hear Terrorist’s Case
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... Reno, former FBI Director William Sessions, former generals and other ex-government officials in urging the court to review the case.
They said the justices should overturn the appeals court ruling backing the president’s authority to detain terrorism suspects in the U.S. without charges.
The case is al-Marri v. Pucciarelli, 08-368.
Court to rule on domestic detention
Friday, December 5th, 2008 12:58 pm | Lyle Denniston
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Taking on another historic constitutional fight over war-on-terrorism ...
SCOTUS To Consider Al-Marri Case: Briefs To Be Filed After Obama Takes Office
Firedoglake —
... Administration has taken office. Which puts a few questions front and center: Will the Obama Administration change the stance of the government's position in their filing? Who will be nominated to head OLC? Will it be someone who can pass Senate scrutiny quickly enough -- or will it be remaindered DOJ personnel who will file the brief and, if so, who will be doing the supervision of said filing?
What does this mean in terms of government position in the matter? As SCOTUSblog says: ...
The Next Showdown - Cert for al-Marri
Obsidian Wings —
... The case is arguably the most important yet because the Court seems ready to weigh in on one of the most sweeping powers claimed by the Bush administration -- the power to indefinitely detain legal residents arrested in the United States (and thus citizens).
I'm sure we'll return to it later, but below is a very high-level summary of the case and what's at stake. For more thorough backgrounders, see Greenwald, Lederman, the Brennan Center, and SCOTUSblog.
Al-Marri was a legal resident -- a graduate student -- living in the United ...
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