I’m no lawyer, nor do I hire people to interpret these things, but I have been reading it for 2 days. My eyes are about to bleed.
I’ve performed about 20 careful cross-references in that time, and the whole thing confuses the hell out of me.
What I find disturbing (This is not the first time this has happened) is how the government can, and does, sign into LAW that suppliers to the government (Boeing, for instance) CAN NOT charge them more, and must fulfill contracts (Which are already lowest-bidder) out of their own pocket. I would be pissed if my client passed a law to protect himself, instead of just shopping elsewhere or accepting reasonable expectations.
That’s not the reference.
The reference is that the law says basically you can be branded as an “enemy combatant” and that would be a crime, you can then be detained, AND YOU DON’T GET A TRIAL!
That’s a Bill of Attainder. The legislature CANNOT, no matter how much it might want to, bypass the Courts.
Separation of powers and all that jazz.