Bonus episode from our partners at 5–4: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
The Politics of Everything
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The case centers on a man who captured in afghanistan, where he had allegedly joined the taliban. Petitioner, homdy is a citizen who has been held over two years in the united states with no opportunity to be heard as to the facts on which his detention is based. An american accused of crimes against the state would be charged with treason and afforded a lawyer and a trial. A foreign prisoner of war would be protected by the geneva conventions. But the supreme courts holding in this case allowed for homdi and other prisoners to be treated as a neader and to instead be classified as enemy combatantswho can be held in a kind of legal limbo.
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