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...kidnappings were staged by two Harvard student groups as part of a nationwide protest against the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The act denies the right of habeas corpus—which since 1215 has granted prisoners the power to demand legal justification for their detention??to an individual dubbed an “enemy combatant...
...restriction applies only to aliens and U.S. permanent residents. But not only is this an arbitrary and unjust distinction, it offers little real comfort: Detaining a U.S. citizen without the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus may be illegal, but the only way to challenge an illegal detention??to assert that one is a citizen and deserves basic legal rights—is through a habeas corpus petition. The idea, then, that we are immune from government incursions on our legal rights is a frightening Catch-22, one that leaves us entirely dependent on the propriety...
Consider the “preventive detention?? of thousands of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants under an alarming cloak of secrecy. It is telling that the government still refuses to give a number for how many people were so detained, and how many stay so. Further, the USA PATRIOT Act allows the attorney general practically unchecked power in the treatment of noncitizens. He need merely proclaim to have “reasonable grounds” to believe “terrorist” activity has taken place to hold non-citizens indefinitely, a far cry from...
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