A CLOSE POLITICAL FIGHT is expected soon in the U.S. Senate over a proposal to restore the ability of federal courts to hear challenges by detainees being held within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Less than a year after enacting the court-stripping provisions in the Military Commissions Act of 2006 MCA, the lawmakers will renew debate, perhaps before their July 4th recess, over whether these detainees in the nation’s war on terrorism should have the right to the centuries-old remedy of habeas corpus.
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