Defending Bush, Obama admin. appeals decision allowing detainees to challenge imprisonment.

[babsbunny]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/11/obama-detainees-bagram-appeal/

By Satyam Khanna at 6:33 pm

Recently, Judge John Bates ruled that some prisoners at the Air Force base in Bagram have a right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. civilian courts, saying the detainees are “virtually identical” to detainees at Guantánamo and so they have the same constitutional rights granted in Boumediene vs. Bush. Siding with the Bush administration, however, the Obama administration is appealing the court decision:

The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight. In a court filing, the Justice Department also asked District Judge John D. Bates not to proceed with the habeas-corpus cases of three detainees at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan.

[Supersedeas]

1. some strong comments at the end of the article--thanks for the link

[indepat]

2. Any defense of junior is indefensible in so far as junior failed in his oath of office to preserve,

protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, just as it would have been with any predecessor or would be with any successor. :D