Article: Feds to justices: Dismiss appeal on detainees' behalf; Supreme Court plea: Government says the group has no authority to bring action for Guantanamo Bay inmates

WASHINGTON (AP) - Afghan war prisoners detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have no rights in U.S. courts and cannot be represented by a group of clergy, professors and attorneys, the Justice Department argues in a brief filed with the Supreme Court.

The filing urged the court to let stand a November ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that concluded the Coalition of Clergy, Lawyers and Professors had no authority to bring legal action on the prisoners' behalf.

The California-based coalition is demanding the government provide the roughly 660 detainees from 42 countries with lawyers, define charges against them, detail their identities and allow them ...

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