Time for Meaningful Justice at Guantanamo

For six years the Bush administration has denied detainees at Guantanamo the right to habeas corpus. It is time for the Court to resolve once and for all that Guantanamo detainees deserve their day in court.

Habeas corpus has been one of America's strongest and proudest traditions for more than two centuries. If habeas corpus means anything, it means that individuals detained by the state must be given a fair shot to show their imprisonment is unlawful. There are some traditions no president or Congress should be ever be allowed to break. Full Story »

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Roland F. Hirsch
2.3
by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

The author makes his case, but without considering the fact that habeas corpus does not apply to enemy combatants, which the detainees surely are. He is poorly educated in U.S. history, since he does not even mention Abraham Lincoln even though the one clear application of his policy is that he would have advocated Lincoln's impeachment and removal from office in 1861, even if that meant allowing the Confederate States to remain separate and slave-holding. It's important that people writing their opinions abiout these issues read up on American history first!

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