Closing Guantanamo Bay Fades As A Priority

==Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review



Few issues highlight Barack Obama's extreme hypocrisy the way that Bagram does. One of George Bush’s most extreme policies was abducting people from all over the world -- far away from any battlefield -- & then detaining them at Guantanamo with no legal rights of any kind, not even the most minimal right to a habeas review in a federal court. Back in the day, this was called "Bush's legal black hole." In 2006, Congress codified that policy by enacting the MilitaryCommissionsAct, but in 2008, the SupremeCourt, in BoumedieneVsBush, ruled that provision unconstitutional, holding that the Constitution grants habeas corpus rights even to foreign nationals held at Guantanamo. Since then, detainees have won 35 out of 48 habeas hearings brought pursuant to Boumediene, on the ground that there was insufficient evidence to justify their detention.



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