Today, the NAACP and five other leading civil rights organizations joined the growing challenge to the Administrations illegal National Security Agency spying program.

The Brennan Center for Justice and the law firm of Jenner & Block LLP filed a brief yesterday on behalf of former federal judges in Qassim v. Bush. The brief argues that our federal courts have the power to end the four-year-plus detention of two men in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base who the Government concedes are innocent, but who remain imprisoned. Such an arbitrary exercise of executive authority, contend the former judges, cannot go unchecked by the courts.

Petitioner Shawqi Omar and his wife and son as next friends hereby submit supplemental briefing requested by the Court in support of the request for a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the United States government from transferring Mr. Omar, a United States citizen, to Iraqi authorities.