Legal Commentary

Obama Administration To Appeal Ruling Granting Bagram Detainees Right To Habeas Hearing

By Big Tent Democrat

The Obama Administration will take an appeal from the district court ruling granting Bagram detainees the right to a habeas hearing. This reaction sums it up:

Tina Foster, the executive director of the International Justice Network, which is representing the detainees, condemned the decision in a statement.

“Though he has made many promises regarding the need for our country to rejoin the world community of nations, by filing this appeal, President Obama has taken on the defense of one of the Bush administration’s unlawful policies founded on nothing more than the idea that might makes right,” she said.

Though these detainees are held in a battlezone, the argument is they were not captured in a battle zone. That argument should be tested in a court of law.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 11, 2009 (boomark / email).