Enemy combatants

June 30, 2004 2:19 PM

The Supreme Court rulings on enemy combatants: What they mean for the president, the war effort, and civil rights.
posted by homunculus (3 comments total)

In another decision, the court affirmed the 215-year old Alien Tort Claims Act for the first time (though it decided against the plaintif in that case.) The law may now be used by inmates of Abu Ghraib.
posted by homunculus at 2:38 PM on June 30, 2004

"Putting together Justice Thomas' opinion in Hamdi with his vote in ACLU v. Ashcroft, we may infer that the President can throw any citizen in a military prison indefinitely, but that the citizen has the right to view pornography while there."
posted by homunculus at 4:24 PM on June 30, 2004

Election-year term is cautious one for court
posted by homunculus at 12:18 PM on July 3, 2004