Gitmo Fatigue at the Supreme Court

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Is the Supreme Court finally finished with Guantánamo?

It’s beginning to look that way. On Monday, without comment or noted dissent, the court turned down three separate Guantánamo-based cases. The three appeals challenged how the federal appeals court in the District of Columbia is handling the habeas corpus petitions that the last Guantánamo-related Supreme Court decision, in June 2008, empowered the detainees to file.
That decision, Boumediene v. Bush, was written in broad terms (although by the narrow margin of 5 to 4.) It held that Congress had unconstitutionally stripped the federal courts of jurisdiction over cases filed on behalf of the Guantánamo detainees and that, lacking any acceptable substitute procedure, the detainees must be permitted to challenge their continued confinement through the ancient writ of habeas corpus.

The justices left it to the lower courts to devise the rules by which the hundreds of pending habeas corpus cases related to the detainees would proceed. A kind of controlled chaos initially ensued, as the various judges of the federal district court in Washington threw themselves into the waiting cases, many by then five or six years old.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/gitmo-fatigue-at-the-supreme-court/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=thab1