Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jun. 14, 2008
Constitution One, Bush-Cheney Done?
he high court scored a technical knockout against the Bush-Cheney strategy that has consistently ignored the right of the federal judiciary to review the executive branch's imperious conduct of the "war on terror," writes Bruce J. Einhorn. - Forum Column
By Bruce J. Einhorn
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In a dramatic blow to the Bush administration's policy of treating detainees at Guantanamo Bay as if they were anonymous hunks of flesh left to rot on a Devil's Island, the Supreme Court on Thursday held that all those held at our U.S. naval base in Cuba, including non-citizens, have the constitutional right to sue the government in federal civilian...
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