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habeas corpus stories: 22 news summaries

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(Newser) - A federal judge overruled both the Bush and the Obama administrations today, declaring that prisoners held at a military base in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the New York Times reports. The prisoners deserve the same right that the Supreme Court granted to Gitmo detainees last... More »

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Afghanistan • Bagram Air Force Base • enemy combatants • prisoners • habeas corpus

2 Dozen Gitmo Prisoners Win Court Cases

All but 3 who got hearings were found wrongfully detained

Jan 19, 09 4:26 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 24 detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won cases in federal court or military tribunals voiding their detention in the last 3 months. While the Bush administration has insisted that the prisoners who remain at Gitmo are "the worst of the worst," there was apparently no legal... More »

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Taliban • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Afghanis • Guantanamo prisoners • Boumediene v. Bush

ANALYSIS

In Court, Philip Morris Uses Civil-Rights Smokescreen

Tobacco giant plays civil-rights card in battle with Oregon court over $79M judgment

Dec 5, 08 3:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Philip Morris has cast itself as a civil-rights victim being denied due process, Stephanie Mencimer writes for Mother Jones. The tobacco giant, ordered by an Oregon jury in 1999 to pay $79 million in punitive damages to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer, has been fighting the award... More »

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cancer • smoking • Oregon • habeas corpus • Philip Morris • NAACP • tobacco companies • US Supreme Court

5 Ordered Freed From Gitmo on Feds' Lack of Evidence

Governments' classified case insufficient to justify further detention

Nov 20, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge today ordered the release of five Guantánamo Bay inmates, ruling that the US government’s evidence was not enough to justify their continued detention, the New York Times reports. The men were among the inmates who won a Supreme Court verdict in June that found they... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • federal judges • Boumediene v. Bush • evidence

To Close Guantánamo,
US Must Go Through Yemen

Officials reluctant to send prisoners back to unstable nation

Nov 16, 08 3:00 PM CST
(Newser) - As the new administration decides how to make good on its promise to close Guantánamo Bay, the little nation of Yemen is proving to be big trouble. US officials began sending detainees to be held in their home countries in 2005, but have kept all 100-odd Yemenis over fears... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • Yemen • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • US Embassy

OPINION

Assaults on Our Freedom 
Come From Left and Right

Long bipartisan history of infringing on rights of Americans

Nov 13, 08 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Those who blame the current administration for assaults on US constitutional freedoms should take a longer view, writes Alexander Cockburn in the American Conservative. “No doubt the conservatives who cheered Bush on as he abrogated ancient rights and stretched the powers of his office to unseen limits would have... More »

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Bosnia • Bill of Rights • Bill Clinton • Bush legacy • Constitution • habeas corpus • Social Security • Guantanamo prisoners • bipartisanship • George W. Bush • President Obama

Gitmo Detainees Begin Court Challenge

Six Algerian prisoners are first to contest detention by US

Nov 7, 08 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge opened the first habeas corpus hearing for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, five months after the Supreme Court ruled that they may challenge their detention in court. The judge closed the court after opening statements were made, saying that the evidence was classified, the New York Times... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • terror suspects • detainees • Boumediene • Boumediene v. Bush

ANALYSIS

Mukasey Can't Reach Dems Across Gulf on Terror Law

Disgust, distrust on policy has attorney general's push falling on deaf ears

Jul 24, 08 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The refusal by Democrats to give Michael Mukasey a hearing during a Hill appearance yesterday is evidence of a “huge and poisonous gulf” between the legislative and executive branches that threatens to delay action on judicial process until 2009, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write in Newsweek. The attorney... More »

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Congress • habeas corpus • Jerrold Nadler • Michael Mukasey • Boumediene v. Bush

 Bush Could Decide by 
 Weekend to Close Gitmo 

Supreme Court's decision has forced administration's hand

Jul 3, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush could decide by Saturday to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for high-value detainees, insiders tell ABC. There is “generally wide agreement” among Bush's top advisers—Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates among them—that Gitmo should eventually be shuttered, but the landmark recent Supreme Court decision undermines... More »

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Robert Gates • Condoleezza Rice • Cuba • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • US Supreme Court • George W. Bush • Boumediene v. Bush

ANALYSIS

Fall Gitmo Trials Could Present Campaign Landmine

But whether either candidate could find advantage remains uncertain

Jun 24, 08 11:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - If everything goes right, the trial of the five Guantanamo Bay detainees charged in connection with the 9/11 attacks could begin within days of their seventh anniversary—and just as the presidential campaign begins its most heated stretch, Politico reports. Such a development would usually be a gift to Republicans,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • terrorism • military tribunal • September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • Election 2008

Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It

Lawyers warned him that detainee policy would backfire

Jun 21, 08 3:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush ignored warnings that his detainee policy would spark a Supreme Court backlash, the Washington Post reports. Top lawyers both in and outside Washington said that jailing suspects without Congressional approval would push the court to rule on national security—but the White House either ignored the advice... More »

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Bush administration • White House • detainee • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court

OPINION

Note to McCain: Gitmo Ruling Hardly 'Worst'

Shame on candidate for playing politics on habeas corpus

Jun 17, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's painting of last week's Guantanamo Bay ruling as one of the Supreme Court’s “worst decisions" has George Will scoffing in the Washington Post. Various segregation rulings could hold that title, he notes, but more important to McCain should be the justices' affirmation of habeas corpus, "... More »

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John McCain • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • libertarians • US Supreme Court

ANALYSIS

High Court's Gitmo Ruling Raises Election Issue

Landmark ruling could be lightning rod for focus on the court's direction

Jun 14, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees may put the court in the election spotlight for the first time in decades, Linda Greenhouse writes in the New York Times. The dramatic language of Antonin Scalia's dissent could be a signpost for conservatives worried about the court's course; because of the... More »

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human rights • judge • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court • campaign issues

McCain Decries Supreme Court Gitmo Decision

Candidate says he foresees clogged justice system

Jun 13, 08 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain waited a day to react to the Supreme Court's decision on Guantanamo prisoners and came out swinging, calling yesterday’s ruling “one of the worst decisions in the history of the country.” His strong language makes it clear that this will be an election issue, Time... More »

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John McCain • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • US Supreme Court

ANALYSIS

Gitmo Will Be Transformed, Not Closed

Court ruling strips
base of its legal rationale for US

Jun 13, 08 9:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court's ruling yesterday against the Bush administration will not shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention center. But by concluding that detainees can appeal their detention in US civilian courts, the high court stripped away its reason for being, erasing the government's claim that an offshore prison was beyond... More »

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War on Terror • military tribunal • Anthony Kennedy • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court

opinion

'Landmark' Gitmo Ruling
Is a Blow Against Tyranny

Justices rebuke Bush and restore one of the nation's founding principles

Jun 12, 08 6:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Today's Supreme Court decision giving Guantanamo Bay prisoners the right to challenge their detention "will be one of the most celebrated landmark rulings of this generation," Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon. By upholding habeas corpus—a rebuke to the Bush administration and complicit pols of all stripes—the... More »

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War on Terror • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • US Supreme Court • constitutional law • detainees

 Supremes Give Guantanamo
 Detainees Day in Court 

Terror suspects have habeas corpus, get access to federal trials

Jun 12, 08 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Terror suspects have the right to challenge their detention in US federal courts, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today, in yet another blow to the Bush administration's terrorism policies. The ruling dismisses the military tribunals currently in effect in Guantanamo Bay as an inadequate substitute for a court review of... More »

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military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • US Supreme Court

Gitmo Defense Lawyers
See Case
as a 'Privilege'

They take it pro bono to 'rein in' federal abuse

May 27, 08 9:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Defending a Guantanamo Bay detainee isn't a normal pro bono case for Seattle corporate lawyers used to making $575 an hour, the Post-Intelligencer reports: But Harry Schneider and Joe McMillan say the "effort to rein in" what they see as President Bush's legal abuse is motivation enough. "Even... More »

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military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • lawyer • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • Salim Ahmed Hamdan

Gulags in America?
Hoover Tried

He sought approval
to jail 12,000 'disloyal' citizens without trial

Dec 22, 07 5:56 PM CST
(Newser) - J. Edgar Hoover wanted to round up 12,000 Americans he deemed disloyal in 1950, suspend habeus corpus, and lock them up in military and federal prisons, the New York Times reports. In a newly declassified letter, the FBI chief urges President Truman to approve the plan and tell the... More »

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FBI • Guantanamo Bay • history • habeas corpus • J. Edgar Hoover

Supreme Court Returns for a
Big Session

Right-moving bench will rule on lethal injection, Gitmo prisoner rights

Sep 30, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court enters its second session with Bush appointees John Roberts and Samuel Alito tomorrow, which means it will likely resume last session’s rightward slant, Reuters says. Before the court will be big cases on Guantanamo inmates’ right to habeas corpus, the legality of the lethal injection death... More »

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Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Anthony Kennedy • ACLU • lethal injection • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • cruel and unusual punishment • US Supreme Court

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