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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (316139)	1/4/2006 5:00:26 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 436258

Now this guy's in hell. -ng- Supreme Court Says U.S. Can Move Padilla By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 18 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to let the military transfer accused "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla to Miami to face criminal charges in at least a temporary victory for the Bush administration. ADVERTISEMENT The justices overruled a lower court, which had attempted to block the transfer as part of a rebuke to the White House. The high court said it would decide later whether to review Padilla's challenge to his military detention. It granted the Bush administration's request for a transfer in a one-page order. Padilla's jailing as an enemy combatant for the past 3 1/2 years has been the subject of multiple court rulings and criticism by civil rights groups. The former Chicago gang member was arrested in 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport and put in military custody, where he was held without charges and traditional legal rights. The Supreme Court had been asked to use Padilla's case to define the scope of a president's power over American citizens taken into custody on U.S. soil. The justices had been expected to hear his appeal, but shortly before word was to come, the government brought criminal charges against him in Florida. Those charges do not involve allegations that had been made by the administration since 2002 — that Padilla was part of an al-Qaida backed plot to blow up apartment buildings. Instead, a grand jury charged Padilla with being part of a North American terrorism cell that raised funds and recruited fighters to wage violent jihad outside the United States. A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., refused last month to allow the transfer of Padilla from military custody in South Carolina to civilian custody, citing the government's use of one set of facts before the courts to justify Padilla's military detention without charges and another to persuade a grand jury in Miami to indict him on the terrorism-related charges. In that appeals court decision, Judge J. Michael Luttig warned the administration that it risked its credibility with the courts by changing tactics in what could be interpreted as an effort to avoid judicial scrutiny.