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To: Jim Robinson

was there a ruling and did the Pirate Roberts vote for this fascist leap?


2 posted on 05/09/2014 1:29:10 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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Supreme Court rejects hearing on military detention case

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/28/us-usa-court-security-idUSBREA3R0YH20140428

Excerpt:

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Barack Obama’s administration by declining to hear a challenge to a law that allows the U.S. military to indefinitely detain people believed to have helped al Qaeda or the Taliban.

The high court left intact a July 2013 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that journalists and others who said they could be detained under the law, did not have standing to sue.

The provision in question is part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which the U.S. Congress passes annually to authorize programs of the Defense Department.

It lets the government indefinitely detain people it deems to have “substantially supported” al Qaeda, the Taliban or “associated forces.”


4 posted on 05/09/2014 1:34:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: MHGinTN
was there a ruling and did the Pirate Roberts vote for this fascist leap?

Not a ruling, just their standard fare of letting a lower-court's ruling stand. (Much like CA's Prop 8.)
(They would also likely deny standing to anyone challenging it.)

12 posted on 05/09/2014 1:44:31 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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