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Ruling affirms detainees' right to U.S. court hearings

High court rebuffs post-9/11 policies


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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Guantánamo Bay detainees have a right to challenge their imprisonment in federal courts, in another rebuff to the Bush administration's effort to keep detainee cases under military control and away from review by U.S. judges.

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"The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law."


Long a part of Anglo-American tradition, a writ of habeas corpus (Latin for "you should have the body") requires whoever holds the prisoner to allow him to make his case of unlawful confinement.