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Inside Guantanamo: What does the 5-4 Supreme Court decision really mean?

Posted by Harry Hanbury, American News Project at 2:28 PM on June 19, 2008.


A Public Defender representing seven Gitmo detainees shares misgivings about the Supreme Court decision upholding habeas corpus.

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Despite its recent 5-4 rejection of the legal basis for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the Supreme Court may flip back to support the Bush administration's views on executive power.

Steven Wax, a Federal Public Defender who represents seven Gitmo prisoners, is in the middle of this Constitutional maelstrom.

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