BREAKING NEWS...
Washington, DC, June 12, 2008--Today, the Supreme Court released a 5-4 decision repudiating the detainee policies championed by the Bush administration. In an opinion authored by Justice Kennedy, the Court ruled that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay can raise habeas challenges to their detentions and that the Military Commissions Act passed by Congress does not provide an adequate substitute for habeas corpus rights.
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The testimony of Mark P. Denbeaux,
Professor of Law, and Director, Seton Hall Law School Center for Policy and Research, presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 26, 2007.
"As a result of that sweeping, ill-conceived law, we have now eliminated basic legal
and human rights for 12 million lawful permanent residents who live and work among us,
to say nothing of the millions of other legal immigrants and visitors whom we
welcome to our shores each year."
--Senator Patrick Leahy,
Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee (D–VT)