Court Looks at More Terror Plan Challenges

[Judi Lynn]

Court Looks at More Terror Plan Challenges
Supreme Court Looks at More Challenges to Bush Administration's Terror-Fighting Strategy

The Associated Press



WASHINGTON Jan. 5 — The Supreme Court will announce this month whether it will broaden a review of the Bush administration's imprisonment of terror suspects.

The court already overrode the objections of the administration in November to take an appeal that asks whether foreigners held at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may contest their captivity in American courts.

Now justices will decide whether to hear the appeal of U.S.-born terrorism suspect Yaser Esam Hamdi. The government won its argument in a lower court that Hamdi may be kept incommunicado and without access to a lawyer or U.S. courts, even though he is a citizen.

A second case awaiting the justices' return from the holidays is a challenge to the government's policy of withholding names and other details about hundreds of foreigners who were detained in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The appeals come before the justices after a series of setbacks for the White House, most recently rulings last month from appeals courts in San Francisco and New York that sided with alleged enemy combatants.
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040105_118.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Could it be that the USSC

will do what it needs to do to mantain Constitutionality?

[jbfam4]

2. HUMMMMMMM good question

Will we ever find out how the supremes now feel about selecting Dubya* ?