{"id":988,"date":"2004-06-28T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/war_on_civil_liberties\/"},"modified":"2004-06-28T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T14:35:42","slug":"war_on_civil_liberties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/war_on_civil_liberties\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Civil Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details are still emerging, but it appears the just-released U.S. Supreme Court decision does allow those held in concentration camps some access to challange their charges in U.S. courts.<br \/>\nUPDATE: In <a href=\"http:\/\/a257.g.akamaitech.net\/7\/257\/2422\/28june20041215\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/03pdf\/03-1027.pdf\"><i>Rumsfeld v. Padilla<\/i><\/a>, the court did not reach the constitutional issue.  It merely ruled that Padilla had pursued his legal claim in the wrong court.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  In <a href=\"http:\/\/a257.g.akamaitech.net\/7\/257\/2422\/28june20041215\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/03pdf\/03-6696.pdf\"><i>Hamdi v. Rumsfeld<\/i><\/a>, the court ruled that due process demands that a combatant be given an opportunity to challange the government in front of a &#8220;neutral decisionmaker.<br \/>\nThese rulings aren&#8217;t a complete victory for individual rights&#8211;Congress can authorize the president to hold a narrow class of combatents.  But they are, by and large, a blow to the Bush administration&#8217;s claim of authority to hold prisoners indefinitely without the right for them to be heard.<br \/>\nUPDATE:  Lawrence Solum has a <a href=\"http:\/\/lsolum.blogspot.com\/archives\/2004_06_01_lsolum_archive.html#108843980091665460\">more complete rundown<\/a> on the detention cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/war_on_civil_liberties\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to War on Civil Liberties\"><p>Details are still emerging, but it appears the just-released U.S. Supreme Court decision does allow those held in concentration camps some access to challange their charges in U.S. courts. UPDATE: In Rumsfeld v. Padilla, the court did not reach the constitutional issue. It merely ruled that Padilla had pursued his legal claim in the wrong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}