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Article: Justice, even in wartime.(Editorials)(Supreme Court upholds right of habeas corpus)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2008
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Byline: The Register-Guard
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled twice before that the suspects held without charge at the American military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have a right to demand in civilian courts that their continued detention be justified. Both times, Congress changed the law to keep the detainees out of court. On Thursday, the court found that the Guantanamo prisoners' rights are rooted in the Constitution, which Congress can't change. The centuries-old principle of habeas corpus, that imprisonment without charge is unjust, has been upheld.
About 270 men remain behind bars at Guantanamo, most of them swept up after the U.S. invasion of ...