Supreme Court won't hear terrorism case

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider another issue related to the rights of terrorism suspects — rejecting without comment an appeal by Ali Saleh Kahlab al-Marri, one of three people who have been held in America as enemy combatants without traditional legal rights.

The Supreme Court last spring considered the cases of the other two — Jose Padilla and Yaser Hamdi — as well as an appeal involving similar detentions of people held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Bush administration maintains that al-Marri is an al-Qaeda sleeper agent.

At issue in Monday's case was whether al-Marri's lawyers should have challenged his detention in a court in South Carolina, where he is being held. The attorneys filed the case in Illinois, where al-Marri lived before his arrest. With the high court's announcement, they can refile his challenge.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2004-10-04-court-terrorism_x.htm

[ixion]

1. historically, this will be remembered as the early days of disappearing

in the facist theocracy of 'Murika.

People at their jobs or at home will be brutally yanked from their lives and dropped in a cage in Gitmo, sans lawyer, sans rights, sans recourse.

The neocons hate America for it's freedoms. :cry:

[Zensea]

2. Actually Bush has been losing these cases

this doesn't look like a win for him to me.
Not a loss, but not a win either.

They had to release Hamdi. remember.

[ixion]

3. I just had a vision of this guy getting dragged out of his house

I don't know whether he actually is a member of Al-Queda or not, which is why we have the concept of due process. I think it's bad when anyone is subjected to this kind of brutality.

Granted, this was not a win for Bush, but it was not really a win for democracy, either.

[Zensea]

4. Understandable you would have that vision

I can see why you would be worried.
I was trying to reassure you.

[ixion]

6. thanks, 56kid

I appreciate that. :hi:

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[w4rma]

7. ?? (nt)