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- Title: Creating Legal Rights for Suspected Terrorists: Is the Court Being Courageous Or Politically Pragmatic?
- Author : Notre Dame Law Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 475 KB
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Boumediene v. Bush (1) continued the Supreme Court's quixotic quest to establish legal guidelines for the War on Terrorism, which George Bush waged--with the support of Congress--after al Qaeda's attacks of September 11, 2001. (2) A majority of Justices began their battle against the political branches five years ago in a pair of cases. First, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (3) invalidated the government's indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" (i.e., those who had engaged in armed conflict against the United States) who were American citizens. (4) The Court ruled that they had due process rights to notice and a hearing before an impartial decisionmaker, which might include a military tribunal. (5)