{"id":179589,"date":"2017-12-24T20:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/24\/here-is-hoping-that-this-ruling-sticks\/"},"modified":"2017-12-24T20:54:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T01:54:00","slug":"here-is-hoping-that-this-ruling-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/24\/here-is-hoping-that-this-ruling-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Is Hoping That This Ruling Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 4 months ago, a US citizen was detained in Syria, and has been held incommunicado for months, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/judge-govt-must-give-us-citizen-enemy-combatant-access-to-aclu-attorney\">a federal judge has granted ACLU lawyers access to him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A federal judge has taken a major step toward rejecting the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to prevent an American citizen detained indefinitely as an enemy combatant from challenging his captivity in court.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Not only did Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia district court order the Pentagon to permit access to the anonymous man for his would-be attorneys, she also barred the administration from making an end run around the U.S. legal system that it has long been considering \u2013 as a tactic to avoid precisely the defeat in court that Chutkan has now delivered.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Whether and how the Trump administration complies with Chutkan\u2019s order is the latest drama in an extraordinary case that has seen the resurrection of sweeping government claims of detentions power. The last time the government argued it could hold an American citizen in military detention without access to the courts was the early years of George W. Bush\u2019s administration, and the Supreme Court in 2004 rejected the contention in landmark 2004 case.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Late on Saturday night, the 103rd day of the man\u2019s captivity, Chutkan instructed the Pentagon to provide the American Civil Liberties Union with \u201ctemporary, immediate and unmonitored access\u201d to the man, whom the military is holding somewhere in Iraq without ever releasing his name \u2013 another aspect of the government\u2019s efforts to prevent legal intervention in the case. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The behavior of the Trump administration, and the Pentagon, have been truly contemptible in this this matter, even by the standards of the past sixteen years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4 months ago, a US citizen was detained in Syria, and has been held incommunicado for months, and now a federal judge has granted ACLU lawyers access to him: A federal judge has taken a major step toward rejecting the Trump administration\u2019s campaign to prevent an American citizen detained indefinitely as an enemy combatant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,489,364,407,696],"class_list":["post-179589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-civil-war","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}