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New Detainee Filing from Justice Department: Lyle Denniston reports on SCOTUSblog that the Justice Department has made its final filing before the D.C. Circuit Court in its case to keep 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from entering the United States. Previous posts on October 24th and October 7th, give a simple history of the procedure of the case. In its final plea the Justice Department argued the Executive Branch has authority to hold aliens in detention even if they are not considered enemies of the U.S. According to Denniston, the government's reply brief will conclude briefing on whether federal District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was wrong to find that the 17 detainees were entitled to release under federal habeas law, and that they must be brought to the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).