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Padilla shuffle, continued.(Jose Padilla)
"The Supreme Court agreed today to allow for the transfer of" Jose Padilla from a military brig to civilian custody to stand trial on terrorism charges, giving the Bush administration a victory in one round of the prolonged political and legal wrangling over Mr. Padilla's status under the law," reported the New York Times on January 4.
Padilla, a U.S. citizen, had been held in a South Carolina military brig for more than three years alter being designated an "enemy combatant" by President Bush. Attorneys acting on Padilla's behalf had actually requested that his detention continue in order to facilitate a legal challenge to the Bush administration's unsupportable claim that the president has the authority to order the indefinite detention of any U.S. citizen he designates an "enemy combatant."
As we reported earlier (see "The Padilla Shuffle" in our December 26, 2005 issue), President Bush, confronting a Supreme Court challenge he would most likely lose, ordered that Padilla be released from military custody and tried in the federal court system. This about-face came years after Padilla had been accused of participating in a plot to detonate a radiological "dirty" bomb. The president and his subordinates thwarted ...
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