Guardian: MPs and peers in Camp Delta plea (to US Supreme Court)

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1120151,00.html


MPs and peers in Camp Delta plea

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
Saturday January 10, 2004
The Guardian

More than 50 peers, including four retired law lords, and 85 MPs including the former foreign secretary Robin Cook, will file an unprecedented brief with the US supreme court on Wednesday in support of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The "amicus curiae" ("friend of the court") brief, signed by peers and MPs from all parties, is the first ever to be filed by UK parliamentarians with the US's highest court.

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The brief urges the supreme court judges not to abdicate the judiciary's power under the constitution to rule on the legality of acts by the executive. Lower courts have held that the domestic courts have no jurisdiction over foreign nationals held outside US territory.

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Signatories among the 54 peers include four former law lords - Lords Browne-Wilkinson, Mustill, Goff and Lloyd - the former master of the rolls Lord Donaldson, and three bishops. The 85 MPs include the former ministers Robin Cook, Clare Short and Chris Smith, and the former solicitor general Ross Cranston.

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1. Do they think that the 5

who 'legalized' a coup d'etat will give a shit!?