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Article: Appeals court doubts legality of U.S. citizen as enemy combatant; Judge says Congress must make the designation
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- November 18, 2003
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NEW YORK (AP) - An appeals judge Monday said it would be
"effecting a sea change" in the Constitution to endorse President
Bush's designation of a U.S. citizen suspected in an al-Qaida dirty
bomb plot as an enemy combatant.
In a critical showdown between the government and civil rights
lawyers, Judge Barrington D. Parker Jr. seemed hesitant to embrace
the government's reasoning for why Jose Padilla, 33, should be held
indefinitely without access to the courts.
Parker said he believed the power to designate a U.S. citizen as
an enemy combatant rested with Congress, rather than the president,
and that its suggested use in the war against terrorism was
"breathtaking in its sweep."
"Were we to ...