{"id":192675,"date":"2009-03-06T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/06\/al-marri-detention-suit-dismissed-by-scotus\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T23:24:00","slug":"al-marri-detention-suit-dismissed-by-scotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/03\/06\/al-marri-detention-suit-dismissed-by-scotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Marri Detention Suit Dismissed by SCOTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE5254JB20090306\">issue of indefinite detention is unresolved<\/a>, though according to ScotusBlog, we have half a loaf:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Fourth Circuit Court, in a splintered decision, upheld that authority under the 2001 Resolution, but did not rule on the government\u2019s alternative claim that the President\u2019s constitutional power as Commander-in-Chief supported the action.  While the Supreme Court\u2019s order Friday does not indicate how the Justices would have ruled had they gone ahead with their review, the order \u201cvacated\u201d the Circuit Court ruling, meaning that it no longer is a binding precedent on the issues it decided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d rather see a ruling declaring the detention illegal, but the dismissal a bit better than the status quo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the issue of indefinite detention is unresolved, though according to ScotusBlog, we have half a loaf: The Fourth Circuit Court, in a splintered decision, upheld that authority under the 2001 Resolution, but did not rule on the government\u2019s alternative claim that the President\u2019s constitutional power as Commander-in-Chief supported the action. While the Supreme Court\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192675"}],"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=192675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}