No, that's not it at all, and nobody suggested it.

They aren't Americans, nor were they arrested in America, and thus should not be subject to American jurisprudence. Nor are they POW's since no declaration of war has been made, and since they are not uniformed combatants of a hostile nation. You will not find stauncher constitutionalists than Chan or myself, but for the SCOTUS to unlawfully expand the Congressionally-limited power of the federal judiciary in this way is legally and ethically wrong.

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"Bring me that horizon".

I thought the "enemy combatant" classification was a legal fiction so they could be held and tortured. I thought that if they were POWs the Geneva Conventions would apply.

Apparently the Supreme Court disagrees with you. They found that since Guantanamo was under the full control of the US government that habeas corpus applies.

Enemy combatants become prisoners of war when they are captured. The Bush Administration did some wrangling to get around the Geneva Conventions but by declaring them enemy combatants the Bush Administration (whether it likes it or not) technically put them under the protection of the Geneva Conventions. One could argue that the Bush Administration (and Congress for authorizing it) is in violation of the Conventions and should be tried for war crimes (but if you put the Bush Administration on trial you have to put those members of Congress that voted for it on trial as well).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

The Supreme Court has been known to be wrong (Jim Crow laws, "separate but equal," "public use" meaning sell to a developer so the city can get more in property taxes, etc.). Besides, it was a 5 to 4 vote.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

SCOTUS derives that power from Marbury v. Madison; a case in which John Marshall intentionally ignored the jurisdictional question of law and then ruled the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional despite its inherent and plainly seen constitutionality. Then of course you've got other idiotic rulings which, coupled with certiorari, gives the court unconstitutional, near dictatorial arbitrary power to strike down laws with which it has political issue (all the while excluding "political issues"). So you'll have to excuse my lack of recognition of SCOTUS' authority in this case.

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Oh, another thing:

Since Lakhdar Boumediene v. Bush is not an appeal (tribunals don't count as court cases under US law), SCOTUS had no right to hear the case as per Article III.

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"Bring me that horizon".

I don't agree that the war on terrorism is a war, it's largely a propoganda campaign with the effect of taking people's rights and liberties and gaining oil for the US, though the beneficients won't be the people of the US. The terrorist suspects are either innocent people who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong skin colour, or violent criminals with a weak philosophical/theological argument.

I disagree that terrorists are enemy combatants as I have covered above. And about law enforcement agencies and not the military being involved, well I couldn't agree more.

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There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

Of course, not everyone that has been held was an enemy combatant, as shown by how many have quietly been let go back to Iraq.

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Only in the eyes and minds of socialist Levi. These people are enemy soldiers till proved differently. And to release them means we will be fighting them once again.

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Yea can't keep the words of your great leader.

Prophet Muhammad - “Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

They're suspected criminals! What part of that is hard to understand?

I've got an idea, why don't we put all people with brown skin in guantanamo bay, then we'd have no more terrorist attacks!

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg