Urbina

A petition to the Supreme Court filed Monday is being called the first major challenge to the Obama administration’s detention policies.

It’s not clear whether District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina really had the legal authority to order the release in October of the 17 Chinese muslims, or Uighurs, who’ve been held at Guantanamo Bay for almost seven years — though they were cleared for release back in 2003.
Their case, argued today before the D.C. Circuit Court, [...]