Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court.(Brief article)

Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman, top McCain advisers, proposed legislation to counter the worst excesses of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, which gave enemy combatants a constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal court. Responding to attorney general Michael Mukasey's plea for congressional intervention, the bill would reaffirm that the nation remains at war and thus that enemy combatants may be detained until the termination of hostilities. Further, it would forbid courts to order that detainees be transported into the U.S. for hearings or, worse, release; direct that all petitions be filed in a single district court (in Washington) and assigned to judges in a manner that avoids inconsistent rulings; and prescribe rules that ...