Re: New Supreme Court Term
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The most watched case is another Guantanamo detainee case. This time, its a challenge to a law Congress passed last year denying Guantanamo detainees Habeas Corpus protections and the right to challege their detention in federal court. I would prefer we handle the detainees as Geneva Convention POWs, but failing that, the only other option should be as criminal defendants.
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The Guantanamo cases are extremely interesting because the subject matter (constitutional rights, war powers, foreign policy) is so legally vague in many very important ways. It's the type of case where one little sentence in the opinion could be used as foder for either "side" for years to come, especially if the court comes down with a vague ruling.
Pretty sure there are already pretty solid holdings on the child pornography and search incident to ticket offenses cases, so despite the blurbs I imagine the cases are about some uninteresting semantics.
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