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Crucial Court Hearing Challenges Congress’ Power to Deprive Individuals of Habeas Corpus Rights
oday, for first time in court, lawyers challenged Congress’ power to deprive individuals in the U.S. of habeas corpus rights pursuant to the Military Commissions Act. Lawyers for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who has been detained without charges since December 2001, argued the U.S. government’s detention policy - and the premises on which it is based—violate the U.S. Constitution. Government lawyers responded that the president is acting within his powers and that, due to passage of the Military Commissions Act, the circuit court of appeals lacks jurisdiction to hear the case.
House Passes Minimum Wage Increase
Authored by: Press Release
– 01/10/07
1.5 Million Workers Receive Wage Increases
– 01/02/07
Reno Files Challenge to Terror Law
Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system.
Authored by: Press Release
– 11/21/06
Government Seeks to Strip Immigrants of Habeas Corpus
For the first time in Americas history, immigrants in the United States can be indefinitely imprisoned as enemy combatants without court review, according to papers filed last night by the government in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. The government has now asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to dismiss a habeas corpus petition filed by 41-year old student, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who has been imprisoned without charge in a Navy Brig near Charleston, South Carolina for 3 years.
– 11/14/06
Chicago’s Living Wage (The Nation)
– 09/25/06