By David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — In the first legal decision on a federal law that denies access to U.S. courts to detainees
in the war on terrorism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that foreign prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,
could not sue for freedom.
But, in a split decision, U.S. District Judge James Robertson also ruled that the law's denial of that right
to the more than 12 million legal immigrants living in the United States was unconstitutional.
The first part of the ruling affirmed what Congress intended when it passed the Military Commissions Act
in October. The decision came in the case of Salim Hamdan, the onetime driver to Osama bin Laden, who won
what appeared to be a landmark victory in the Supreme Court in June.
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Once again, this administration breaks the law.
The SCOTUS calls them on it.
This administration gets the do-nothing Congress to change the law.
Everything is OK!
Just the way they planned it.