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Senate may revisit ban on court access for Guantanamo detainees
The US Senate may reconsider Thursday's 49-42 vote to deny Guantanamo prisoners habeas corpus access to federal courts to contest their detentions as early as next week, according to negotiators on the issue. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) is exp (More) |
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Justice at Guantanamo? The Paradox of David Hicks
JURIST Guest Columnist Devika Hovell of the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the trial of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks by US military commission highlights his transformation from an alleged p (More) |
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Graham amendment on detainee judicial review [US Senate]
Text of Senate Amendment 2516 to S. 1042 (the 2006 defense appropriations bill), US Senate, November 10, 2005 . Full text from the Congressional Record:REVIEW OF STATUS OF DETAINEES. (a) Submittal of Procedures for Status Review of Detainees at G (More) |
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Senate passes amendment to block Gitmo prisoners from court challenges
The US Senate voted 49-42 late Thursday to block Guantanamo Bay detainees from challenging their imprisonment in US federal courts. The legislation, proposed by GOP Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) , conflicts with the 2004 US Supreme Court ruling i (More) |
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Rice says US treatment of terror suspects meets international standards
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday reaffirmed that the US meets international standards in its treatment of terror suspects, despite rising debate over the issue. Rice told an American Bar Association international law gathering (More) |
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Senate rejects amendment to create independent commission on detainee abuse
The US Senate on has rejected a proposal to create an independent commission patterned after the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate US treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. With a 55-43 party-line vote, senators on Tuesda (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear challenge to Gitmo tribunals
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the Bush administration's use of military tribunals for foreign terror suspects. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld [PDF certiorari petition] comes on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the DC (More) |
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US releases Saudi, Bahraini prisoners from Guantanamo
Three Bahrainis and a Saudi national were released Saturday from detention at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay . None of the released detainees was ever charged with a crime under US law. According to a Bahraini lawmaker, the three Bahraini national (More) |
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US report to UN torture committee defends terror detentions
The US State Department Thursday posted online a report submitted to the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva last month in which the US argued for indefinitely detaining suspected combatants in the war on terror. The report relied (More) |
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Five Kuwaiti detainees released from Guantanamo Bay
Five Kuwaiti citizens have been released from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay , Kuwait Foreign Ministry officials confirmed Thursday. The five men are among 11 Kuwaitis who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo for nearly the last four y (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
