Court Backs Administration on Detainee Issue

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That's right folks, bushco wins another round.

~snip~ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision of a law at the center of President Bush's anti-terrorism plan.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding foreigners.

Barring detainees from the U.S. court system was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a system to prosecute terrorism suspects.

The ruling is all but certain to be appealed to the Supreme Court, which last year struck down the Bush administration's original plan for trying detainees before military commissions.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-Detainees-Lawsuits.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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1. With Bush owning the Courts we are in a bad situation nt

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2. I heard this on NPR, said they don't want to over ride congress. APPEAL MCA '06 NOW!