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Breaking: SCOTUS Remands Rasul Back to DC Circuit
Firedoglake — ... the higher court sees an error in legal analysis, incomplete fact-finding or some other material issue in lower court proceedings. Or, in this case, where SCOTUS has declared detainees to be people who should have access to the courts, as in Boumediene, and finds that the lower court tried to end-run that analysis. This is the SCOTUS way of saying, "no, you don't." The Center For Constitutional Rights, who have been working on this case for quite some time, had this to say: ...

Supreme Court Sends Guantanamo Torture Case Back to Lower Court
The Hollywood Liberal — Supreme Court Sends Guantanamo Torture Case Back to Lower Court December 15, 2008, Washington, D.C. –  In Rasul v. Myers, the first case to challenge torture and violations of religious freedom at Guantánamo, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted certiorari, vacated the underlying opinion and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of its opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, which earlier this year recognized the constitutional right of Guantanamo detainees to challenge detention through habeas corpus. read more [image] This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 5:43 am and is filed under Main Blog (All Posts) . You can follow any responses to this entry ...