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In 2008, the Supreme Court manufactured a constitutional right for enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in court.(The Week)(Brief article)

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In 2008, the Supreme Court manufactured a constitutional right for enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay to challenge their detention in court. Critics warned that once the Court abandoned the boundaries of the U.S. as the outer limit of judicial authority, judges would claim their reach was limitless. Now federal judge John Bates has proven the critics right by extending the same right to military prisoners held in Afghanistan. Since that nation is an active combat zone, the ruling threatens to turn acts of war into crimes and soldiers into cops. ...

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