Supreme Court: Islamic Terrorists Have Constitutional Rights
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 9:35 am PDT • Views: 591
We sure have come a long way since September 11, 2001. And the movement is all backward. High Court ruling may delay war crimes trials.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court’s liberal justices were in the majority.
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