Justices to Weigh Detainee Rights
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The Supreme Court yesterday reversed itself and agreed to consider whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been unfairly barred from the federal courts by the Bush administration and Congress, a move that may finally determine legal rights for foreign-born terrorism suspects.
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Foreigners imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay want the Supreme Court to rule quickly on their legal rights, before the justices go off on their summer break.
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Twenty retired federal judges, two rear admirals and a Marine general joined 383 current or former members of the European and British parliaments on Friday in urging the Supreme Court to grant detainees at Guantanamo Bay full access to the U.S. court system.
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A day later than usual, work begins in earnest Tuesday at the Supreme Court with justices weighing when immigrants convicted of crimes may be deported and whether to reinstate a death sentence in California.
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Two men accused by the United States of fighting with the Taliban appeared before a U.S. military review panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to determine whether they should remain held as enemy combatants, an official said Thursday.
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Some of the Guantanamo prisoners have been unlawfully detained for more than five years and deserve at least a hearing on their challenge to their confinement, their attorneys said on Monday in an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether cable companies must open their high-speed lines to rival Internet providers. Justices will hear two cases challenging a lower
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Britain's highest court decides on Thursday how far human rights can be restricted in the "war on terror" in a major judgment on detaining suspected foreign extremists without trial.
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A federal appeals court will reconsider its ruling that a legal U.S. resident being held as a suspected enemy combatant should be charged or released from military custody.
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The Bush administration is taking the narrowest possible view of legal rights the Supreme Court gave to terrorism detainees while trying to fend off any new court challenges. Ultimately the high court probably will weigh in again, lawyers said.
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The Supreme Court said Monday it would meet again Thursday to hand down some of the 11 decisions remaining for this term. The court has one more session scheduled for next Monday.
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Pakistan's Supreme Court was due to rule on Friday on challenges to military president Pervez Musharraf's bid to run in an October 6 election after lawyers concluded their arguments.
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Among the new cases the Supreme Court announced Tuesday it will consider:
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The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday over whether the drugs commonly injected to execute prisoners risk causing excruciating pain in violation of the Constitution.
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Military tribunals are scheduled to begin Friday for 14 high-value foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the hearings to determine whether they are enemy combatants will take place behind closed doors because of the risk that top-secret information could surface, defense officials said yesterday....
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Families of victims and offenders weigh in on pending Supreme Court case.
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Lawyers summed up arguments on Wednesday as Pakistan's Supreme Court prepared to issue a landmark ruling on challenges to General Pervez Musharraf's bid for another term in an October 6 presidential election.