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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch

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To: jlallen who wrote (32989)12/19/2003 1:23:07 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (3) of 89467
 
"The President's inherent constitutional powers do not extend to the detention as an enemy combatant of American citizens without express congressional authorization," the court concluded in a decision signed by Judges Barrington D. Parker and Rosemary S. Pooler. "Padilla will be entitled to the constitutional protections extended to other citizens."

Thursday's ruling constitutes one of the strongest judicial rebukes of the administration's tactics in the war on terrorism -- in this case, its policy of aggressively detaining suspects without formal charges and without access to lawyers or their families.
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