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...civil libertarians, human rights activists and lawyers who have been challenging the Bush Administration's stance on Guantánamo for years hailed the Supreme Court decision as a major step forward. "The court has brought the Constitution home from exile," said Professor Eric M. Freedman, Maurice Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra and a longtime adviser to lawyers representing prisoners at Guantánamo. "Everyone who believes that America is a country devoted to the rule of law should celebrate because this ruling says that the Executive needs to be accountable to a neutral judicial forum...
...Supreme Court's 5-4 decision Thursday asserting that foreign terrorist suspects held at Guantánamo have an inherent constitutional right to challenge their detention in American courts marks a historic rebalancing of powers between the Executive, Congress and the judiciary - one that many critics believe is a long overdue correction after years of Executive overreach by the Bush Administration. But the ruling's precise practical impact remains unclear and may be relatively slight on the military trials under way at Guantánamo...
...historic significance, it remains to be seen what practical consequences the Supreme Court ruling will have. According to Shayana Kadidal, senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit whose lawyers serve as sole or joint counsel for more than 200 prisoners at Guantánamo, "The impact of this ruling on military commissions trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others may very well be negligible, because federal courts have always been reluctant to stop trials, including military trials, in mid-process...
...Those Guantánamo prisoners facing charges now, or in the future, will have the right to file their own habeas corpus petitions in U.S. courts, challenging the basis of their detention. But such challenges will probably proceed in parallel with their military-commission trials at Guantánamo, some of which are under...
...sees comedy as akin to a Gandhian exercise in passive resistance. It's a kind of intellectual sit-in - "a nonviolent act that can cause a change in public awareness." An atheist whose skepticism of organized religion was honed growing up during Ireland's Troubles, Bowman nonetheless claims his Guantánamo show is deeply Christian. It stands up "for American values, and for Christian values," he says. "Guantánamo Bay is profoundly un-Christian. I'm simply doing what Jesus did during his life: going around from place to place, and speaking up for what he believed...