Center For Individual Freedom
by staff

11/17/05

On November 7th, the United States Supreme Court announced, over strenuous objections by the Bush administration, that it will review the legality of the administration's planned military commissions for accused terrorists, setting up what could be one of the most significant rulings on presidential war powers since the end of World War II. Later this term, the Court will hear the case of Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, which deals with the legality of military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay detainees. Last term, the Justices threw out the administration's claim that the United States could hold enemy combatants indefinitely without access to the courts. At the crux of many of the war power cases is the assertion that the courts lack authority to even consider cases restricting presidential war powers...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp