{"id":195330,"date":"2008-07-15T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/15\/court-because-i-said-so-not-due-process\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T04:14:00","slug":"court-because-i-said-so-not-due-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/15\/court-because-i-said-so-not-due-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Court: &#8220;Because I Said So&#8221; Not Due Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri a legal US resident who was arrested for credit card fraud, and then declared an &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221; will now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSN1529442820080715\">have his day in court<\/a>, after more than 5 years in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that he could be detained, but that the basis of the detention, the statement of a defense department official without supporting evidence, was insufficient to justify his classification.<\/p>\n<p>Note that as a legal resident, he has the same rights to due process as a US citizen, and so the Bush administration&#8217;s position was thus that they were free to detain anyone at any time forever without any supporting facts.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think that if they have evidence, it should be addressed in a real trial, though I would be not at all surprised if this hearing reveals that the emperor has no clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri a legal US resident who was arrested for credit card fraud, and then declared an &#8220;enemy combatant&#8221; will now have his day in court, after more than 5 years in solitary confinement. The court ruled that he could be detained, but that the basis of the detention, the statement of a &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-195330","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\/195330"}],"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=195330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}