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  • Supreme Court won't review Bush's terrorism powers

    04/03/2006 7:30:02 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 129 replies · 5,654+ views
    Supreme Court won't review Bush's terrorism powers By James Vicini 1 minute ago A divided Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether President George W. Bush has the power in the war on terrorism to order American citizens captured in the United States held in military jails without any criminal charges or a trial. By a 6-3 vote, the court sided with the Bush administration and refused to hear an appeal by Jose Padilla, who was confined in a military brig in South Carolina for more than three years after Bush designated him an "enemy combatant." The court's action...
  • Supreme Court Rejects Jose Padilla Case

    04/03/2006 11:44:56 AM PDT · by truth_seeker · 45 replies · 1,250+ views
    Yahoo News/AP ^ | 4/3/2006 | GINA HOLLAND
    Supreme Court Rejects Jose Padilla Case By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer A divided Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Jose Padilla, held as an enemy combatant without traditional legal rights for more than three years, sidestepping a challenge to Bush administration wartime detention powers. Padilla was moved in January to Miami to face criminal charges, and the government argued that the appeal over his indefinite detention was now pointless. Three justices said the court should have agreed to take up the case anyway: Justices David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. And three other court...