Sentences with phrase «holding enemy combatants»
Holland writes, «The court's intervention is troubling news for the White House, which has been battered by criticism of its treatment of detainees and was rebuked by the high court last year for holding enemy combatants in legal limbo.»
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It invents an arbitrary line between citizen - enemies and alien enemy combatants, holding that flexible and uncertain rights to a «hearing» on their combatant status must be accorded to certain classes of combatants.
We know from the Jose Padilla case that US citizens can be detained in the US and held without charge for several years if the POTUS labels them as enemy combatants.
Pataki pretty much stuck to the GOP line, criticizing the president for entitling «enemy combatants» to Miranda warnings, enabling them to «lawyer up and not talk about what they know»; and going along with US AG Eric Holder's decision to (so far) hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in NYC.
On September 19th Mr Mohamed officially re-emerged when he was taken from Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to Guantanamo in Cuba, being held there without charge as an «enemy combatant» until the following autumn when he was charged with conspiracy, although these charges were later dropped and replaced with new military commission accusations at the end of 2008.
This is the brig.. It's the jail in a naval vessel, used to hold prisoners like enemy combatants or disobedient sailors.
Under the Detainee Treatment Act, the Circuit Court has the authority to provide limited review of military decisions to continue holding Guantanamo prisoners as «enemy combatants.»
For example, the writ of habeas corpus has been sought to seek the release of people held as «enemy combatants» rather than pursuant to a criminal conviction.