Bonus episode from our partners at 5–4: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
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The Supreme Court's Decision on Habeas Corpus
The supreme court said that the writ of habeas corpus doesn't have to be suspended, and you don't have to fully inform somebody of what they're charged with if they're a us. Citizen who is being held as an enemy batant. What results from this decision is that the department of defense created what were called combatant status review tribunals. At these determinations, the rules of evidence did not apply, and the government's evidence was presumed to be genuine and accurate. The location for where these c s r t proceedings happened are completely unknown to this day. And now the government is arguing the same thing in front of the supreme court just this month. They are
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