Obama DOJ: ‘Aliens Held at Guantanamo Do Not Have Due Process Rights’

Following up on my post yesterday about the Obama administration’s court filing in the case of Rasul v. Rumsfeld — in which four British former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are seeking damages for being tortured, humiliated, abused and indefinitely detained without charge or access to counsel — SCOTUSblog More…

Obama Justice Department Urges Dismissal of Another Torture Case

In another move that suggests the Obama Department of Justice is not making many big policy breaks with its predecessor when it comes to the legal rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees, the department filed a brief renewing the government’s motion to dismiss the case of Rasul v. Rumsfeld.

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