Supreme Court rejects hearing on military detention case

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8. IIRC the 2nd Circuit determined, that plaintiffs did not have standing, was based

on the court's view that (contrary to the plaintiffs' claims) the NDAA detention provision did not apply to the plaintiffs: that is, the plaintiffs could not be detained under those provisions

In any normal world, one should have expected that plaintiffs, who complained of a law on the grounds that they feared it might apply to them, would be delighted to have a court rule that the law could not apply to them, and to have the court toss their suit on those grounds -- since in any future case, that might involve the arrest and detention of such persons under the law, those arrested and detained would be able to quote the 2nd Circuit decision, and would be able to point to the Supreme Court's refusal to review that decision, as having answered (completely negatively) the question of whether the law countenanced such arrest of such persons

But, no! In the topsy-turvy world, of people eager to encourage unfounded cynicism about our current President and unwilling to actually read the statute or the 2nd Circuit decision, this happy ruling by the 2nd Circuit, and the Supreme Court's unwillingness to review that ruling, must constantly be portrayed as still more evidence that everyone is now at constant risk of being slapped into a cell and held indefinitely