The Folly of Guantanamo Bay
The Supreme Court today heard arguments on the legality of the detaining “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo Bay with neither US constitutional rights to habeas corpus, nor Geneva Conventions POW rights.
Solicitor General Paul Clement, representing the administration, said foreigners captured and held outside the United States “have no constitutional rights to petition our courts for a writ of habeas corpus,” a judicial determination of the legality of detention.
